55Information about drugs

55 Information about drugs

(1)  [Regulation 55 Subregulation (1) amended by No. 23 of 2022, s. 62, Applied:24 Oct 2022] Subject to subregulation (2) , a pharmacist, medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner must not supply to a person a substance listed in Schedule 4 unless, at the time that he or she supplies the substance, he or she also supplies to the person to whom the substance is supplied an information sheet, in the form required under regulation 9A of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 of the Commonwealth, concerning that substance.

(2)  An information sheet need not be supplied under subregulation (1) if –

(a) [Regulation 55 Subregulation (2) amended by No. 23 of 2022, s. 62, Applied:24 Oct 2022] the substance is supplied by a pharmacist and the prescription according to which it is dispensed bears an endorsement that it is not necessary for the pharmacist to supply the information sheet; or

(b) [Regulation 55 Subregulation (2) amended by No. 23 of 2022, s. 62, Applied:24 Oct 2022] in a case where a medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner supplies the substance without the intervention of a pharmacist, the medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner is of the opinion that it is not in the patient's interests to supply the sheet.