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[Regulation 82 Substituted by S.R. 2020, No. 22, Applied:31 Mar 2020]
(1AA) [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1AA) inserted by S.R. 2025, No. 8, Applied:12 Mar 2025]
vaccination program
(1) For the purposes of section 38(1)(i) of the Act –
(a) a person who is a dental therapist or an oral health therapist may, in the course of dental or oral health therapy, administer the following restricted substances to another person in the following specified circumstances:
(i) demeclocycline (demethylchlortetracycline), when used in dental preparations;
(ii) local anaesthetics, for use in dental treatment;
(iii) topical fluorides, when used in dental preparations;
(iv) triamcinolone acetonide, when used in dental preparations; and
(b) a person who is a registered nurse or midwife may, in the course of nursing practice or midwifery practice, administer to another person a substance listed in Schedule 2 or 3 to the Poisons List; and
(c) [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2025, No. 8, Applied:12 Mar 2025]
(i) has completed an educational program approved by the Secretary relating to the administration of vaccines; and
(ii) has been approved by the Secretary to administer vaccines independently –
may administer to another person a vaccine listed in Schedule 4 to the Poisons List in accordance with an immunisation program; and
(d)
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may administer to another person, in accordance with an immunisation program, a vaccine listed in Schedule 4 to the Poisons List; and
(e) [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2021, No. 32, Applied:28 May 2021] [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by No. 23 of 2022, s. 66, Applied:24 Oct 2022] [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2025, No. 8, Applied:12 Mar 2025] paragraph (c)(i) and (ii) may supervise the administration of a vaccine listed in Schedule 4 to the Poisons List in accordance with an immunisation program, by another person who is a registered nurse, enrolled nurse, paramedic, midwife, pharmacist or provisionally registered pharmacist and who –
(i) is undertaking an educational program approved by the Secretary relating to the administration of vaccines; or
(ii) [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2021, No. 32, Applied:28 May 2021] regulation 54A ; and
(f) [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2021, No. 32, Applied:28 May 2021] [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by No. 23 of 2022, s. 66, Applied:24 Oct 2022] [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by No. 23 of 2022, s. 66, Applied:24 Oct 2022] [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2025, No. 8, Applied:12 Mar 2025] paragraph (d)(iii) may supervise the administration of a vaccine, listed in Schedule 4 to the Poisons List, in accordance with an immunisation program, by another person who is a pharmacist or provisionally registered pharmacist and who –
(i) is undertaking an educational program approved by the Secretary relating to the administration of vaccines; or
(ii) [Regulation 82 Subregulation (1) amended by S.R. 2021, No. 32, Applied:28 May 2021] regulation 54A ; and
(g) a person who is a speech pathologist employed in the State Service and who has undertaken an educational program approved by the Secretary, in relation to the administration of local anaesthetics may administer, in the course of speech pathology practice, a topical local anaesthetic listed in Schedule 2, 3 or 4 to the Poisons List.