New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1966 - SECT 28A

28A Approval of prescribers of drugs of addiction

(1) The Director-General may, on the recommendation of the Medical Committee, approve a medical practitioner as a prescriber of drugs of addiction.

(2) Application for such an approval must be made to the Director-General in writing and must be referred by the Director-General to the Medical Committee for its recommendation.

(3) An applicant must provide the Director-General:

(a) in the application, and

(b) before approval of the application,

with such information relevant to the application as the Director-General requires.

(4) The Director-General may give an unconditional approval or an approval subject to specified conditions.

(5) An approval given subject to conditions is ineffective unless the conditions are complied with.

(6) The Director-General may, on the recommendation of the Medical Committee:

(a) revoke an approval or a condition of an approval,

(b) amend a condition of an approval,

(c) impose a condition of an approval that was an unconditional approval, or

(d) impose an additional condition of an approval.

(7) The Director-General may, pending receipt of a recommendation for the purposes of subsection (6) or before referring the matter to the Medical Committee for a recommendation if the circumstances are sufficiently urgent to require immediate action:

(a) suspend an approval, or

(b) impose or amend a condition of an approval.

(8) The Director-General may arrange for an approval to be referred from time to time to the Medical Committee for review and a report and recommendation to the Director-General as a result of the review.

(9) Nothing in this section prevents the Director-General from refusing an application or from referring for report and recommendation by the Medical Committee any question arising under this section.

(10) For the purposes of subsection (7), the circumstances are sufficiently urgent to require immediate action with respect to a medical practitioner’s approval if the Director-General is of the opinion that the action is necessary for the purpose of protecting the life, or the physical or mental health, of the medical practitioner or any other person (whether or not any other such person is identifiable).