CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 187 Use of medicines
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 187
Use of medicines(1) The director-general may approve the use of a medicine, other than a prescription only medicine, by a young detainee.
Note The taking of an unauthorised medicine by a young detainee is a behaviour breach (see s 287).
(2) The director-general may seek the advice of a treating doctor before approving the use of a medicine, other than a prescription only medicine, by a young detainee.
(3) If the director-general approves the use of a medicine by a young detainee, the director-general must ensure that the details of the approval, and the reasons for it, are recorded in relation to the young detainee in the register kept under section 185.
(4) In this section:
"prescription only medicine"—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008