Page 2581 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 1994

Proposed new clauses 5 and 6

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.43): Madam Speaker, I move:

That the following new clauses be added to the Bill:

Insertion

"5. Before section 48 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Prescription, dispensing or sale of anabolic steroids

'47ZB. (1) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse -

(a) administer to himself, herself or another person; or

(b) prescribe, dispense or sell to another person for human use;

an anabolic steroid.

Penalty:

(a) if the offender is a natural person - $5,000 or imprisonment for 6 months or both;

(b) if the offender is a body corporate - $25,000.

'(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to administering, prescribing, dispensing or selling an anabolic steroid -

(a) that is registered under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 of the Commonwealth; or

(b) for the purposes of a clinical trial conducted under that Act.

'(3) In this section -

"anabolic steroid" includes -

(a) a substance specified in Schedule 1 and any -

(i) salt, active principle or derivative of such a substance;