Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00049:clause:10_2:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00049
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 10 cl 2 (pt 3/9)
Character Range: 13467–16602

Schedule 8                           Controlled drugs                                                                 Substances which should be available for use but require restriction of manufacture, supply, distribution, possession and use to reduce abuse, misuse and physical or psychological dependence.
Schedule 9                           Prohibited substances                                                            Substances which may be abused or misused, the manufacture, possession, supply or use of which should be prohibited by law except when required for medical or scientific research, or for analytical, teaching or training purposes with approval of Commonwealth and/or State or Territory Health Authorities.
Schedule 10 (previously Appendix C)  Substances of such danger to health as to warrant prohibition of supply and use  Substances which are prohibited for the purpose or purposes listed for each poison.

Principles of scheduling
Poisons are not scheduled on the basis of a universal scale of toxicity. Although toxicity is one of the factors considered, and is itself a complex of factors, the decision to include a substance in a particular Schedule also takes into account many other criteria such as the purpose of use, potential for abuse, safety in use and the need for the substance.
This instrument lists poisons in 10 Schedules according to the degree of control recommended to be exercised over their availability to the public.
Poisons for therapeutic use (medicines) are mostly included in Schedules 2, 3, 4 and 8 with progression through these Schedules signifying increasingly restrictive regulatory controls.
For some medicines and agricultural, domestic and industrial poisons, Schedules 5, 6 and 7 represent increasingly stricter container and labelling requirements with special regulatory controls over the availability of the poisons listed in Schedule 7. Products for domestic use must not include poisons listed in Schedule 7.
Schedule 9 contains substances that should be available only for teaching, training, medical or scientific research including clinical trials conducted with the approval of Commonwealth and/or State and Territory health authorities. Although appearing as a Schedule in this instrument, the method by which it is implemented in the States and Territories may vary.
Schedule 10 (previously Appendix C) contains a list of substances or preparations, the supply or use of which should be prohibited because of their known dangerous properties.
Substances in products which have been considered for scheduling, but have been exempted from this instrument, may be listed in either Appendix A (general exemptions) or Appendix B (substances considered not to require control by scheduling).

Reading the schedules
Schedule entries have been designed to be as simple as possible while retaining readability, legal integrity and as much freedom from ambiguity and contradiction as possible. As a result, they are expressed in a number of ways, though this number has been kept to a minimum. It is necessary to keep this variety of expression in mind when searching