EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS - REG 93
Administration of medication
EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS - REG 93
Administration of medication
93 Administration of medication
(1) The approved provider of an education
and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child
being educated and cared for by the service unless--
(a) that administration
is authorised; and
(b) the medication is administered in accordance with
regulation 95 or 96.
Penalty: $2000.
(2) The approved provider of an
education and care service must ensure that written notice is given to a
parent or other family member of a child as soon as practicable, if medication
is administered to the child under an authorisation referred to in
subregulation (5)(b).
Penalty: $1000.
(3) A nominated supervisor of an
education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to
a child being educated and cared for by the service unless--
(a) that
administration is authorised; and
(b) the medication is administered in
accordance with regulation 95 or 96.
Penalty: $2000.
(4) A family day care
educator must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being
educated and cared for by the educator as part of a family day care service
unless--
(a) that administration is authorised; and
(b) the medication is
administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.
Penalty: $2000.
(5) In
this regulation the administration of medication to a child is authorised if
an authorisation to administer the medication--
(a) is recorded in the
medication record for that child under regulation 92; or
(b) in the case of
an emergency, is given verbally by--
(i) a parent or a person named in the
child's enrolment record as authorised to consent to administration of
medication; or
(ii) if a parent or person named in the enrolment record
cannot reasonably be contacted in the circumstances, a registered medical
practitioner or an emergency service.
