Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2006 - SECT 39

Persons required to keep records

39. Persons required to keep records

The following persons are required to keep records under this Division-

   (a)  a registered medical practitioner, pharmacist, veterinary
        practitioner, dentist, nurse practitioner, an authorised optometrist
        and an authorised podiatrist; and

   (b)  a person holding a licence, permit or warrant to manufacture, sell,
        supply, purchase or otherwise obtain, possess, administer or use a
        Schedule 4 poison, Schedule 8 poison or Schedule 9 poison; and

   (c)  a nurse authorised under regulation 5(2) to be in possession of a
        Schedule 4 poison, Schedule 8 poison or Schedule 9 poison; and





   (d)  an approved provider of an aged care service if-

   (i)  in that service there is a resident who is receiving a high level of
        residential care; and

   (ii) that resident has been supplied, on prescription, with a Schedule 4
        poison, a Schedule 8 poison, or a Schedule 9 poison; and

   (e)  a person referred to in Column 1 of Part 2 of the table in regulation
        5 as authorised to have in his or her possession a Schedule 4 poison
        or Schedule 8 poison.