Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021
sec.198Storage for safety and quality of medicines
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sec.198 Storage for safety and quality of medicines
A medicine store establisher for a place must establish and maintain a medicine store for storing S2, S3 and S4 medicines at the place. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. The medicine store establisher must take all reasonable steps to ensure the medicine store is established and maintained in a way that keeps the medicines in the store in accordance with the manufacturer’s conditions for the medicines. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. If pentobarbital is possessed at the place, the medicine store establisher must ensure the medicine store for the pentobarbital is lockable. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.198-ssec.1) A medicine store establisher for a place must establish and maintain a medicine store for storing S2, S3 and S4 medicines at the place. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.198-ssec.2) The medicine store establisher must take all reasonable steps to ensure the medicine store is established and maintained in a way that keeps the medicines in the store in accordance with the manufacturer’s conditions for the medicines. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.198-ssec.3) If pentobarbital is possessed at the place, the medicine store establisher must ensure the medicine store for the pentobarbital is lockable. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.