34FException to Schedule 8 permit requirement—patients in prisons, police gaols, aged care services and hospitals

34F Exception to Schedule 8 permit requirement—patients in prisons, police gaols, aged care services and hospitals Despite sections 34B and 34C, a registered medical practitioner, a nurse practitioner or a paramedic practitioner is authorised to administer, supply or prescribe a Schedule 8 poison to or for a person without a Schedule 8 permit if that person is— (a) a prisoner being treated in a prison for the period in prison and a period not exceeding 7 days after that prisoner's release from custody; or S. 34F(ab) inserted by No. 40/2017 s. 7(2). (ab) a person being treated in a police gaol for the period in the police gaol and a period not exceeding 7 days after that person's release from the police gaol; or (b) a resident being treated in an aged care service; or S. 34F(c) amended by No. 50/2017 s. 10. (c) an in-patient being treated in a hospital or a patient being treated in an emergency department of a hospital, for the period of that treatment in the hospital and a period not exceeding 7 days after that person's discharge from the hospital. S. 35 amended by Nos 10002 s. 4(f) (as amended by No. 10087 s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 40)), (j), 10262 s 4, 42/1993 s. 47(6), 12/1994 s. 4(3), 23/1994 s. 118(Sch. 1 item 17.10), 9/1998 s. 8, 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1), 94/2000 s. 51, 67/2003 s. 13(1), 74/2004 s. 16, substituted by No. 17/2008 s. 9, amended by No. 1/2025 s. 21.