TONGA

THERAPEUTICS GOODS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2014

Arrangement of Sections 
Section 

1 Short title 
2 Section 2 amended 
3 Section 20 amended 
4 Section 21 amended 
5 Section 22 amended 
6 Section 23 amended 
7 Section 29 amended 

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THERAPEUTICS GOODS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2014
Act 1 of 2014

AN ACT TO AMEND THE THERAPEUTICS GOODS ACT 2001

I assent, 
TUPOU VI, 
19th June 2014. 

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows: 

1 Short title 

(1) This Act may be cited as the Therapeutic Goods (Amendment) Act 2014. 

(2) The Therapeutics Goods Act 2001 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. 

2 Section 2 amended 

Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following definition in the correct alphabetical order – 

""nurse practitioner" means a person duly registered as such under the Nurses Act 2001;". 

3 Section 20 amended 

Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new subsection (2A) after subsection (2) – 

"(2A) Any nurse practitioner may write prescriptions for medicinal drugs included in Classes 1 and 2 of the registered list, and may write prescriptions for medicinal drugs included in Class 3 of the registered list on the advice of a medical practitioner.". 

4 Section 21 amended 

The proviso to section 21(1) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the words "health officer" the following ", nurse practitioner". 

5 Section 22 amended 

Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended – 

(a) in subsection (2) by inserting after the words "health officer" the following ", nurse practitioner"; and 

(b) in subsection (3)(g) by inserting after the words "health officer" the following ", nurse practitioner". 

6 Section 23 amended 

Section 23(1) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "nurse" the following ", nurse practitioner". 

7 Section 29 amended 

Section 29(1) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "nurse" the following ", nurse practitioner". 

Passed by the Legislative Assembly this 24th day of March 2014.