Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PATENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 96, 1989 - SECT 3

3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following
definitions:

" 'marketing approval certificate', in relation to a pharmaceutical substance,
means a certificate given by the Secretary to the Department of Community
Services and Health certifying that he or she has approved the marketing of
the substance, or a product containing the substance, in Australia;
'pharmaceutical substance' means a substance (including a mixture or compound
of substances) for therapeutic use the application, or one of the
applications, of which involves a chemical interaction, or physico-chemical
interaction, with a human physiological system, or involves action on an
infectious agent, or on a toxin or other poison, within a human body, but does
not include a substance that is solely for use in in vitro diagnosis or in
vitro testing;
'therapeutic use' means use for the purpose of:

   (a)  preventing, diagnosing, curing or alleviating a disease, ailment,
        defect or injury in persons;

   (b)  influencing, inhibiting or modifying a physiological process in
        persons; or

   (c)  testing the susceptibility of persons to a disease or ailment;".