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Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008
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#### 116 Registers to be kept
116 Registers to be kept
> > (1) The nurse or midwife in charge of a hospital ward must keep a register of the drugs of addiction kept in the ward.
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> > (2) The responsible person for a residential care facility must keep a register of the drugs of addiction kept in the residential care facility.
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> > (3) The responsible person for a managed correctional centre must keep a register of drugs of addiction kept in the managed correctional centre.
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> > (4) A register must be in the form of a book that—
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> > > (a) contains consecutively numbered pages, and
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> > > (b) is bound so that the pages cannot be removed or replaced without trace, and
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> > > (c) contains provision on each page for the inclusion of the particulars required to be entered in the book.
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> > (5) Separate pages of the register must be used for each drug of addiction and for each form and strength of the drug.
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> > (6) The Secretary may from time to time approve the keeping of a register in another form.
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> > (7) A management company for a managed correctional centre must appoint, by written instrument, a pharmacist employed at the managed correctional centre as the responsible person for the purposes of subclause (3).
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> > (8) If there is no pharmacist employed at the managed correctional centre, an authorised practitioner, other than a veterinary practitioner, or nurse in charge may be appointed.
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> Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> **cl 116:** Subst 2018 (703), Sch 1 \[10\]; 2021 (386), Sch 1\[18\].