Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

POISONS REGULATIONS 1965 - REG 12F

12F .         Requirements relating to used hypodermic needles and syringes

        (1)         A person shall not, in the course of the conduct of an approved needle and syringe programme, accept any used hypodermic syringe or used hypodermic needle unless the syringe or needle has been exhausted.

        (2)         For the purposes of subregulation (1), a hypodermic syringe or a hypodermic needle shall be taken to have been exhausted if it contains no more than the residue of any drug.

        (3)         A person who, in the course of the conduct of an approved needle and syringe programme, receives any used hypodermic needle or used hypodermic syringe shall immediately place the needle and syringe in a receptacle of a type approved by the CEO and the Commissioner of Police.

        [Regulation 12F inserted in Gazette 26 May 1994 p. 2199; amended in Gazette 15 Dec 2006 p. 5630.]

[Heading deleted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3663.]

[ 13, 14.         Deleted in Gazette 19 Mar 1996 p. 1219.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3664.]