95Health practitioner to ensure self-administration of some

95 Health practitioner to ensure self-administration of some supplied Schedule 8 substances (1) This section applies to a health practitioner: (a) supplying a prescribed Schedule 8 substance under a Schedule 8 authorisation or Schedule 8 exemption; or (b) a health practitioner who is a pharmacist supplying a prescribed Schedule 8 substance on a prescription issued by an authorised prescriber. (2) The health practitioner must ensure the person to whom the substance is supplied self-administers the substance in the health practitioner's presence. (4) Subsection (2) does not apply if, under a code of practice, takeaway doses of the substance are authorised for the person. subsection (2) if the defendant establishes a reasonable excuse. (6) In this section: prescribed Schedule 8 substance means a Schedule 8 substance prescribed by a code of practice for this section.