Page 1759 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 17 October 1989

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medicines even, and medicines used by asthmatics will fall into this category.

We will not be introducing legislation at this stage, because we do not regard it as necessary to define, because the list which will be used by the ACT in relation to drugs will be provided by the adoption of the international Olympic code which includes a list of substances which are categorised by the International Olympic Committee for its purposes. We will adopt that list which is available, and we can make it available to all members of the Assembly and brief them on that accordingly.

The other point which related to testing is that we have already negotiated that, as part of the Commonwealth Government's commitment to the elimination of performance enhancing drugs in sport, we will be using the Federal agency as the testing agency. It is important to note that it will be done at the cost of the Federal Government. So that is part of the Federal Government's commitment. On those points, Mr Speaker, I would conclude. I thank members of the Assembly for their support on this matter.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Assembly adjourned at 5.01 pm

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