New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1966 - SECT 28

28 Prohibition on prescribing drugs of addiction in certain cases

(1) A medical practitioner or nurse practitioner must not, without the proper authority, prescribe for or supply to any person a type A drug of addiction.

(2) A medical practitioner or nurse practitioner must not, without the proper authority, prescribe or supply a type B drug of addiction:

(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.

(5) A drug of addiction may be prescribed for or supplied to a person by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner without the proper authority if the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner is authorised by the regulations to prescribe or supply the drug without an authority under section 29.

(6) In this section:
"type A drug of addiction" means a drug of addiction prescribed by the regulations under this section as a type A drug of addiction.
"type B drug of addiction" means a drug of addiction prescribed by the regulations under this section as a type B drug of addiction.
"type C drug of addiction" means any drug of addiction (other than a type A drug of addiction).