A department's reading of the legislation
Frequently asked questions: medicines in beauty treatment and cosmetic businesses
Queensland Health. Factsheet, Queensland.
- Version
- March 2026
- Last read
- 23 September 2026
Recorded as departmental interpretation, not as law. It answers questions about the department's factsheet and carries the same contested reading of custody and control, and its own opening states there has been no change to the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019. ClinicTrace records what a clinic does and takes no position on whether any arrangement satisfies the Act.
What changed
- March 2026Queensland Health issued earlier editions alongside the December 2024 and April 2025 factsheets.
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