Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

MEDICINES, POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 2012 - SECT 16

For this Act, a Schedule or Appendix to the medicines and poisons standard applies to a substance in a circumstance if:

        (a)     the substance is included in the Schedule or Appendix; and

        (b)     either:

            (i)     the standard does not, in the circumstance, exclude the substance from the operation of the Schedule or Appendix; or

            (ii)     a restriction in the standard applies in relation to the substance in the circumstance.

Example for paragraph (b)(ii)

If a Schedule 2 substance is listed as restricted "for human therapeutic use" and the substance is included only in that schedule, the standard applies to the substance only for human therapeutic use.