74Registration in Opioid Treatment Program

74 Registration in Opioid Treatment Program

74 Registration in Opioid Treatment Program

(1) The Health Secretary may, in accordance with the regulations, register a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner or pharmacy to carry out activities involving the following as part of the Opioid Treatment Program (an OTP registration)—

(a) the supply or administration by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner of a prescribed Schedule 8 substance or other prescribed scheduled substance,

(b) the issue of a prescription by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner for a prescribed Schedule 8 substance or other prescribed scheduled substance,

(c) the dispensing of a prescribed Schedule 8 substance or other prescribed scheduled substance by a pharmacist at a pharmacy.

(2) An OTP registration for a pharmacy under subsection (1)(c) applies only to dispensing on a prescription issued by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner with an OTP registration under subsection (1)(b).

(3) The regulations may provide for OTP registrations, including the following—

(a) the circumstances in which registrations, or kinds of registrations, may or must be granted or refused,

(b) the activities that medical practitioners, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and pharmacies are authorised to do under a registration,

(c) the variation, suspension or revocation of registrations,

(d) the provision of information about persons for the purposes of registrations, including information about whether persons are registrable,

(e) the keeping and publication of registers for registrations,

(f) the circumstances in which an OTP registration is not required, including in relation to particular medical practitioners, nurse practitioners, pharmacies, pharmacists and patients.

(4) The regulations may provide for standards that must be complied with by the following—

(a) a person who supplies, administers or issues prescriptions for a prescribed Schedule 8 substance or other prescribed scheduled substance under an OTP registration,

(b) a pharmacist who dispenses a prescribed Schedule 8 substance or other prescribed scheduled substance at a pharmacy under an OTP registration,