Queensland Numbered Acts

MEDICINES AND POISONS ACT 2019 - SECT 11

11 Meaning of medicine

(1) A
"medicine" is—

(a) a substance to which the Poisons Standard, schedule 2 applies (an
"S2 medicine" ); or

(b) a substance to which the Poisons Standard, schedule 3 applies (an
"S3 medicine" ); or

(c) a substance to which the Poisons Standard, schedule 4 applies (an
"S4 medicine" ); or

(d) a substance to which the Poisons Standard, schedule 8 applies (an
"S8 medicine" ).

(2) However, a substance mentioned in subsection (1) is not a medicine to the extent it is treated as a poison under section 12 (2) .

(3) A regulation may prescribe another substance to be an S2, S 3, S 4 or 11.html#s8_medicine">S8 medicine .