Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00049:clause:10_6:p1
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Provision Reference: sch 10 cl 6 (pt 1/8)
Character Range: 33908–36759

6  Definitions
Note 1: The following expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act:
(a) current Poisons Standard;
(b) poison;
(c) Register;
(d) Secretary;
(e) supply;
(f) therapeutic goods.
Note 2: The definition of poison in the Act is as follows:
 poison means an ingredient, compound, material or preparation which, or the use of which, may cause death, illness or injury and includes any ingredient, compound, material or preparation referred to in a schedule to the current Poisons Standard.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.
agricultural chemical means:
 (a) a substance that is represented, imported, manufactured, supplied or used as a means of directly or indirectly:
 (i) destroying, stupefying, repelling, inhibiting the feeding of, or preventing infestation by or attacks of, any pest in relation to a plant, a place or a thing; or
 (ii) destroying a plant; or
 (iii) modifying the physiology of a plant or pest so as to alter its natural development, productivity, quality or reproductive capacity; or
 (iv) modifying an effect of another agricultural chemical; or
 (v) attracting a pest for the purpose of destroying it; or
 (b) an active ingredient included in a product declared by regulation under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 to be an agricultural chemical product;
but does not include a veterinary chemical.
agricultural chemical product has the same meaning as in the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code set out in the Schedule to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.
animal means any animal (other than a human being), whether vertebrate or not, and whether a food producing species or not, and includes mammals, birds, bees, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans and molluscs.
animal feed premix means a concentrated preparation, containing one or more poisons, for mixing with food ingredients to produce a bulk feed for a group of animals (including fish or birds), but does not include a preparation for mixing with an individual animal's food.
appropriate authority: each of the following is an appropriate authority:
 (a) each person who is the head of the body (however described) in a State or Territory that is responsible for the administration of matters relating to health in that State or Territory;
 (b) the Deputy Secretary of the Department with responsibility for the part of the Department known as the Therapeutic Goods Administration, or their delegate;
 (c) the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, or their delegate.
approved name means:
 (a) for a poison that is for human therapeutic use—the name for the poison in the Australian Approved Names List within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990; or
 (b) for a poison that is for animal or