POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS REGULATION 2008 - REG 117
Entries in registers
POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS REGULATION 2008 - REG 117
Entries in registers
117 Entries in registers
(1) On the day on which a person receives, supplies
or administers a drug of addiction in a ward, residential care facility or
managed correctional centre, the person must enter the following details in
the register--
(a) the quantity of the drug received, supplied or
administered,
(b) the time of day when the drug was received, supplied or
administered,
(c) in the case of a drug that is supplied or administered to a
patient--
(i) the name of the patient to whom the drug was supplied or
administered, and
(ii) the name of the person by whom the supply or
administration of the drug was prescribed or directed,
(d) the quantity of
drugs of addiction of that kind held in the ward, residential care facility or
managed correctional centre after the transaction takes place,
(e) any other
details approved by the Secretary.
(2) The entry must be dated and signed by
the person by whom it is made and countersigned--
(a) in the case of an entry
relating to the receipt of a drug of addiction, by a person who witnessed its
receipt, or
(b) in the case of an entry relating to the supply or
administration of a drug of addiction--
(i) by the person who supervised or
directed its supply or administration, or
(ii) by a person who witnessed its
supply or administration.
(2A) The person countersigning for the purposes of
subclause (2) in a managed correctional centre must be an authorised
practitioner, nurse, midwife or pharmacist appointed, by written instrument,
by the management company for the managed correctional centre for the purposes
of this clause.
(3) The Secretary may, by order in writing, exempt any person
or drug of addiction, or any class of persons or drugs of addiction, from any
or all of the requirements of this clause.
(4) Such an exemption may be given
unconditionally or subject to conditions.
(5) In this clause--
"authorised practitioner" does not include a veterinary practitioner.
