51Dispensing prescriptions for restricted substances (S4)

51 Dispensing prescriptions for restricted substances (S4)

(1)  [Regulation 51 Subregulation (1) substituted by S.R. 2026, No. 4, Applied:16 Feb 2026] Subject to subregulations (2) , (3) and (4) and regulation 53 , a person must not supply a restricted substance otherwise than on, and in accordance with –

(a) a prescription issued, or a direction given, in accordance with regulation 45 ; or

(b) a prescription that the person reasonably believes was lawfully written and issued in another State or a Territory.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

(2)  A person may dispense not more than once a prescription for a restricted substance that conforms in all other respects with regulation 45(5) but does not specify a maximum number of times that the dispensing of the prescription may be repeated if, upon dispensing the prescription, that person cancels it in accordance with subregulation (13) .

(3)  A person may only dispense a restricted substance that is not a declared restricted substance or a specified psychotropic substance in accordance with a medication chart, that is taken to be a prescription under regulation 45(7)(b) for the restricted substance, for up to 12 months from the date of the prescription.

(4)  Where –

(a) the dispensing of a prescription for a declared restricted substance is authorised, by the terms of the prescription, to be repeated but the prescription does not specify the minimum intervals at which the dispensing of the prescription may be repeated; and

(b) the prescription conforms in all other respects with regulation 45(5)  –

a person may dispense that prescription if –

(c) the person –

(i) ascertains, in accordance with subregulation (5) , the earliest date on which the dispensing of the prescription may be repeated; and