Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2012
243EPersons required to give information to CHO
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243E Persons required to give information to CHO (1) Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of maintaining the monitored medicines database: (a) a relevant prescriber must, as soon as practicable after issuing a recordable prescription, give the prescribed information to the CHO in the manner or form the CHO considers appropriate; and (b) a pharmacist must, as soon as practicable after making a recordable supply, give the prescribed information to the CHO in the manner or form the CHO considers appropriate; and (c) a data source entity must, as soon as practicable after receiving information from a relevant prescriber or pharmacist about a recordable prescription or recordable supply, give the prescribed information to the CHO in the manner or form the CHO considers appropriate.
Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2012 133 (2) In addition, the CHO may require: (a) the relevant prescriber or pharmacist give the prescribed information specified in subsection (1)(a) or (b) to a data source entity; and (b) the data source entity give the prescribed information to the CHO in the manner or form the CHO considers appropriate. (3) The CHO may, by written notice, exempt a specified person from the requirement to give information under subsection (1). (4) The CHO may, by written notice published on the Agency's website, exempt a specified class of persons from the requirement to give information under subsection (1).