Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

MEDICINES, POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 2008 - SECT 13

    (1)     In this Act:

"prohibited substance"—

        (a)     means a substance to which the medicines and poisons standard, schedule 9 applies; but

        (b)     does not include cannabis food products.

Note     Sch 9 substances are generally illegal substances that are subject to abuse. They include some derivatives of the scheduled substances (see  s 16 (2)).

schedule 10 substance means a substance to which the medicines and poisons standard, schedule 10 applies.

Note     Sch 10 substances are substances, other than those in sch 9, the sale, supply and use of which is prohibited because of the degree of danger to health they represent. The schedule includes some derivatives of the substances to which the schedule applies (see  s 16 (2)).

    (2)     In this section:

"cannabis food product"—see the Drugs of Dependence Act 1989

, section 6.