Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2017
132FCircumstances where it is not mandatory for pharmacist to check monitored poisons database—certain classes of person
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132F Circumstances where it is not mandatory for pharmacist to check monitored poisons database—certain classes of person
(1) For the purposes of section 30E of the Act, a pharmacist is not required to comply with that section in relation to a person for whom a monitored supply poison may be supplied before supplying the monitored supply poison for that person if the person is—
(a) an in-patient being treated in hospital; or
(b) a patient being treated in an emergency department of a hospital; or
(c) a prisoner being treated in a prison; or
(d) a person being treated in a police gaol; or
(e) a resident being treated in an aged care service.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply if a patient referred to in subregulation (1)(a) or (b) is supplied a monitored supply poison on discharge.
Reg. 132G inserted by S.R. No. 72/2018 reg. 9.