(a) for continuous therapeutic use by a person for
a period exceeding 2 months, or
(b) for a period that, together with any
other period for which that drug or any other type B drug of addiction has
been prescribed or supplied by the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner
or has, to the medical practitioner's or nurse practitioner's knowledge, been
prescribed or supplied by any other medical practitioner or nurse
practitioner, would result in that drug, or that drug together with any other
such drug, being prescribed or supplied for continuous therapeutic use for a
period exceeding 2 months.
(3) A medical practitioner or nurse practitioner
must not, without the proper authority, prescribe for or supply to a person
who, in the opinion of the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner, is a
drug dependent person a type C drug of addiction.
(4) For the purposes of
this section,
"the proper authority" means an authority under section 29 that authorises the
medical practitioner or nurse practitioner to prescribe or supply the
drug of addiction to the person concerned.
