FED Therapeutic Goods Rules Can Use External Documents

Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill 2025

22 Jul 2025: MPs in the first house are debating whether this bill is a good idea in principle.

House of Representatives

Senate

Assent

Links to official parliament websites

Official page: progress through parliament

Effects of this bill

If this bill passes, it means that:

Regulations for therapeutic goods can now adopt content from other documents; this applies even if the documents change over time.
The government can modify the external content before incorporating it into the regulations.
The Therapeutic Goods regulations can now include rules or information from other external documents.

Topics

healthcare healthcare products medical regulation public administration public health regulatory compliance therapeutic goods