Medicines and Poisons (Poisons and Prohibited Substances) Regulation 2021
sec.29Electronic register
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sec.29 Electronic register
This section applies if the holder of a substance authority keeps a high-risk poison register in an electronic form. The holder must take all reasonable steps to ensure— a person can make entries in the register only by using the person’s secure system identifier provided by the holder; and the person’s secure system identifier is automatically recorded with an entry in the register made by the person; and the register is set up in a way that allows the information required under sections 27 and 28 to be included in the register; and the entries in the register are able to be easily reproduced on paper. The holder must make and keep a record of each person’s secure system identifier in a form that can not readily be altered without detection. In this section— secure system identifier , for a person, means a unique identifier for the person that can only be used in combination with a password created by the person. (sec.29-ssec.1) This section applies if the holder of a substance authority keeps a high-risk poison register in an electronic form. (sec.29-ssec.2) The holder must take all reasonable steps to ensure— a person can make entries in the register only by using the person’s secure system identifier provided by the holder; and the person’s secure system identifier is automatically recorded with an entry in the register made by the person; and the register is set up in a way that allows the information required under sections 27 and 28 to be included in the register; and the entries in the register are able to be easily reproduced on paper. (sec.29-ssec.3) The holder must make and keep a record of each person’s secure system identifier in a form that can not readily be altered without detection. (sec.29-ssec.4) In this section— secure system identifier , for a person, means a unique identifier for the person that can only be used in combination with a password created by the person.
- (a) a person can make entries in the register only by using the person’s secure system identifier provided by the holder; and
- (b) the person’s secure system identifier is automatically recorded with an entry in the register made by the person; and
- (c) the register is set up in a way that allows the information required under sections 27 and 28 to be included in the register; and
- (d) the entries in the register are able to be easily reproduced on paper.