243JRelevant prescriber must check database before prescribing

243J Relevant prescriber must check database before prescribing monitored medicine (1) A relevant prescriber commits an offence if: (a) the relevant prescriber issues a prescription for a monitored medicine to another person; and (b) the relevant prescriber does not check the information held in the monitored medicines database in relation to the other person before issuing the prescription; and (c) the prescription is not issued in circumstances that are prescribed by regulation to be exempt. subsection (1) if the relevant prescriber has a reasonable excuse.

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