Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008
543Making entries in controlled medicines registers—Act,
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543 Making entries in controlled medicines registers—Act, (1) The following details for a dealing with a controlled medicine are medicine, dealt with; (d) if the dealing is receiving the medicine—the name and address of the supplier; (e) if the dealing is supplying the medicine—the name and address of the person to whom it is supplied; (f) if the medicine is supplied on a prescription—the prescriber’s name and suburb and the prescription’s number under section 123 (i) (Labelling dispensed medicines—Act, s 60 (1) (c) (i) and (2) (c) (i)); (g) if the medicine is supplied on a requisition—the requisition’s number under section 132 (e) (Labelling medicines supplied on requisition—Act, s 60 (1) (c) (i) and (2) (c) (i)); (h) if the medicine is supplied on a purchase order—the date of the purchase order;
(i) if the Act, section 53 (Registers—witnessing administration of medicines) applies to the dealing—the name of the person to whom the medicine is administered; (j) the quantity of the medicine held after the dealing. (2) However, subsection (1) (i) does not apply in relation to a controlled medicine dispensed in a dose administration aid for— (a) a patient at a residential aged care facility or residential disability care facility; or (b) a detainee at a correctional centre; or (c) a young detainee at a CYP detention place. (3) A dealing with a controlled medicine must be entered in— (a) if the dealing happens in a pharmacy at an institution—the controlled medicines register kept at the pharmacy; or (b) if the dealing happens in a ward at an institution—the controlled medicines register kept at the ward; or (c) if the person must keep both a controlled medicines register for a first-aid kit and another controlled medicines register— (i) for a dealing with a controlled medicine to which the first-aid kit relates—the controlled medicines register for the kit; or (ii) for any other dealing by the person—the other controlled medicines register; or (d) in any other case—the controlled medicines register the person must keep.