59EAuthority for making drugs available to certain patients

59E Authority for making drugs available to certain patients

[Section 59E Inserted by No. 29 of 2009, s. 8, Applied:01 Sep 2009]

(1)  [Section 59E Subsection (1) amended by No. 15 of 2017, s. 28, Applied:13 Jun 2017] [Section 59E Subsection (1) substituted by No. 23 of 2022, s. 40, Applied:24 Oct 2022] The Secretary may, on an application made under this section in respect of any person (in this section referred to as the patient), authorise a medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner to make available –

(a) a narcotic substance or a specified substance; or

(b) more than one narcotic substance; or

(c) more than one specified substance; or

(d) a combination of one or more narcotic substances and one or more specified substances –

for the use of the patient.

(2)  [Section 59E Subsection (2) amended by No. 15 of 2017, s. 28, Applied:13 Jun 2017] An application under this section is to be in writing in a form approved by the Secretary and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner by whom it is made.

(3)  An application is to –

(a) specify the patient in respect of whom it is made; and

(b) [Section 59E Subsection (3) amended by No. 15 of 2017, s. 28, Applied:13 Jun 2017] state whether, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner the patient –

(i) is a drug-dependent person; or

(ii) is exhibiting drug-seeking behaviour; or

(iii) has a history of obtaining a notifiable restricted substance, a narcotic substance or a prohibited substance for a non-medical purpose, or of unlawful possession or unlawful supply of a notifiable restricted substance, narcotic substance or prohibited substance; and