Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00456:schedule:3:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00456
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 6/27)
Character Range: 16224–19186

is not the sponsor, that the sponsor has agreed should be identified on a medicine's label;

       excipient, in relation to a medicine, means an ingredient of the medicine other than the active ingredient;

       expiry date, in relation to a product, means the date (month and year) after which the medicine should not be used;

       expiry date prefix means a prefix which precedes the expiry date which has the following characteristics:
       (a)    clearly indicates that the information following the prefix is the expiry date;
           (b)            is in the following form: 'EXPIRY DATE', 'EXPIRY', 'EXPIRES', 'EXP. DATE', 'EXP' , 'Use by' or 'Use before' or words to this effect, including a mixture of lower and upper case letters;
           (c)             is not in the following form: 'Best by' or 'Best before' or words to this effect;

       external, in relation to the use of a medicine, means application in the ears, eyes or nose or to a body surface other than in the mouth, rectum, vagina, urethra or other body orifice;

       health professional includes the following:
           (a) a health practitioner of any kind registered under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration of health practitioners of that kind; and
           (b) a biomedical engineer, prosthetist or rehabilitation engineer;

       herbal material means a plant or part of a plant (defined by its botanical scientific name according to the binominal nomenclature system, including author, and the plant part), whether fresh or dried, that is whole, fragmented, cut or ground;

       herbal preparation means an ingredient that is the result of the processing of a herbal material;

       homoeopathic medicine means a medicine that:
       (a) contains one or more homoeopathic preparations; and
           (b) may contain excipients necessary for presentation of the medicine in the final dosage form.

       homoeopathic potency means the dilution factor of a homoeopathic preparation, expressed as:
           (a) 'nX' where each dilution is a decimal or ten-fold dilution and 'n' is the number of dilutions such that the total dilution is 10n; or
           (b) 'nC' where each dilution is a centesimal or hundred-fold dilution and 'n' is the number of dilutions such that the total dilution is 100n; or
           (c) 'nLM' or 'LMn' where, from a 3C starting dilution, each subsequent dilution is a fifty millesimal or fifty thousand fold dilution and 'n' is the number of dilutions such that the total dilution is 50,000n.
                  Note: Where 1000 centesimal dilutions are performed, the potency is expressed as nM; that is, 1M potency represents a 1,000C dilution, 2M a 2,000C dilution, etc
           homoeopathic preparation has the same meaning as in the Regulations.

       intermediate packaging means a level of packaging which, if it exists, encloses one or more containers and is itself enclosed in a