Part 13Transitional matters

Part 13 — Transitional matters 149. Terms used 124 150. Continuation of licences and permits (s. 141) 124 151. Manufacture, supply and use of Schedule 9 poisons for research 127 152. Containers and labels 128 153. Directions about storage or use of poisons 128 154. Approvals 129 155. Appointments, authorisations, designations and nominations 130 156. Approval of storage arrangements 133 Schedule 1 — Fees Division 1 — Fees for licences Division 2 — Fees for permits Division 3 — Other fees Schedule 2 — List of additional substances that are Schedule 9 poisons Schedule 3 — Requirements for safes 1. Requirements for small safe 144 2. Requirements for large safe 145 Schedule 4 — Prescribed offences and modified penalties Schedule 5 — Infringement notice forms Schedule 6 — List of Schedule 4 reportable poisons Notes Compilation table 152 Defined terms Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 ## Part 1 — Preliminary ##### 1. Citation These regulations are the *Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016*. ##### 2. Commencement These regulations come into operation on the day on which section 131 of the Act comes into operation. ##### 3. Terms used (1) In these regulations — acute care means immediate, short‑term treatment for an injury, episode of illness or urgent medical condition; approved electronic prescribing system means an electronic system approved under regulation 19(4); approved form means a form approved by the CEO; approved needle and syringe programme means a needle and syringe programme approved under regulation 108; current Poisons Standard has the meaning given in the *Therapeutic Goods Act 1989* (Commonwealth) section 3(1); dentist means a person registered under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* whose name is entered on the Dentists Division of the Register of Dental Practitioners kept under that Law; dispense means to supply in accordance with a prescription; endorsed midwife means a person registered under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* in the midwifery profession whose registration is endorsed under section 94 of that Law; endorsed podiatrist means a podiatrist whose registration is endorsed under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* section 94; exempt substance means each of the following — (a) a preparation that contains a poison listed in the current Poisons Standard Appendix G Column 1 at a concentration that is the same as or less than the concentration specified in Column 2 of the Appendix; (b) a poison in a product listed in the current Poisons Standard Appendix A; hospital means a private hospital or a public hospital; medical practitioner means a person registered under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* in the medical profession; medication chart means a chart recording medicines used, or to be used, for the treatment of a patient in a hospital, that is — (a) in a form developed by the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care; or (b) in a form approved by the clinical governance committee of the hospital; or (c) in a form approved by the CEO; nurse practitioner means a person registered under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* in the nursing profession whose registration under that Law is endorsed as nurse practitioner; patient in a hospital means a person who is admitted as a patient to the hospital; pharmaceutical sample means a sample package — (a) that contains a medicine that is a Schedule 2, 3 or 4 poison; and (b) that is — (i) up to one‑third of the size of the smallest trade pack of the medicine; or (ii) if it is not practical to produce a pack that is one‑third of the size of the smallest trade pack of the medicine — the smallest trade pack of the medicine; podiatrist means a person registered under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* in the podiatry profession; private hospital has the meaning given in the *Private Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927* section 2(1); public health programme means a programme designed to prevent injury and reduce the spread of disease; public health service has the meaning given in the *Health Services Act 2016* section 6; public hospital has the meaning given in the *Health Services Act 2016* section 6; residential care chart means a chart recording medicines used, or to be used, for the treatment of a care recipient in a residential care facility that is — (a) in a form developed by the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care; or (b) a medication chart as defined in the *National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017* (Commonwealth) regulation 41(4); residential care facility means any premises used to provide residential care to care recipients by an approved provider as defined in the *Aged Care Act 1997* (Commonwealth); restricted Schedule 3 poison means pseudoephedrine as included in Schedule 3;