Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004
47Veterinarian to keep records relating to injectable anabolic
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47 Veterinarian to keep records relating to injectable anabolic steroids (1) A veterinarian who has possession of a batch of injectable anabolic steroid must keep, for 2 years after the last of the batch is used to treat an animal or is disposed of, a record of the following for the batch: (a) the name of the steroid; (b) the manufacturer's batch number; (c) the date on which the veterinarian obtained the batch; (d) the name of the supplier from whom the batch was obtained; (e) the total volume of steroid in the batch; (f) details about the use and disposal of the batch sufficient to account for the total volume of the batch, including the details specified in subsection (2). (2) For subsection (1)(f), the details about the use and disposal of a batch must include the following: (a) each date on which part of the batch was used, supplied, or disposed of by the veterinarian; (b) if part of the batch was used or supplied by the veterinarian to treat one or more animals: (i) the name and address of the person who owned, or was responsible for the care of, the animals at the time of treatment; (ii) the volume of steroid used or supplied to treat the animals; (iii) the number of animals treated; and (iv) information sufficient to enable the veterinarian to identify the animals treated;
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004 34 (c) if part of the batch was disposed of: (i) the method of disposal; and (ii) where it was disposed of by giving it to another person – the name and address of that person; (d) the volume of steroid remaining in the batch after each time part of the batch was used or disposed of.