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EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 93

EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 93

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: $1100.

        (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.

        [Regulation 93 amended: Gazette 28 Sep 2018 p. 3620; SL 2023/186 r. 45(1).]