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THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 41BIA

Meaning of non - application of overseas requirements comparable to conformity assessment procedures

  (1)   A requirement that is comparable to a conformity assessment procedure is taken, for the purposes of this Chapter, not to have been applied to a medical device by the manufacturer of the device if:

  (a)   there has been a contravention of the requirement; and

  (b)   the contravention relates, wholly or partly, to that device or its manufacture.

  (2)   However, for the purposes of this Chapter (other than Part   4 - 11), subsection   (1) does not apply if:

  (a)   the quality management system applied in the manufacture of the medical device complies with one or more conformity assessment standards that apply to it; and

  (b)   the contravention is only in respect of a part or parts of the requirement to which that conformity assessment standard, or one or more of those conformity assessment standards, relate.



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