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).]