I, John Jamieson, as delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Aged Care, make the following approval.
Dated 7 September 2023
John Jamieson
Assistant Secretary
Medical Devices and Product Quality Division
Health Products Regulation Group
Department of Health and Aged Care
1 Name
This instrument is the Therapeutic Goods (Mercury-Form for Application to Import or Export) Approval 2023.
2 Commencement
- Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is made. | 8 September 2023 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
- Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subregulation 10JD(4) of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990.
4 Definitions
Note 1: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act, including the following:
- Secretary;
- therapeutic goods.
Note 2: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in regulation 2 of the Regulations, including the following:
- mercury;
- Minamata Convention;
- Therapeutic Goods Administration.
In this instrument:
Act means Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.
Regulations means the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990.
5 Approved form
For the purposes of paragraph 10JD(2)(a) of the Regulations, the approved form for an application to the Secretary, under subregulation 10JD(1) of the Regulations, for approval to:
- import into Australia a therapeutic good that is mercury from a non-party to the Minamata Convention; or
- export from Australia a therapeutic good that is mercury;
is the application form titled Application to import or export a therapeutic good that is mercury published on the Therapeutic Goods Administration website.
