Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 3 February 2016
These regulations are administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation)
These regulations amend the Poisons Regulations 2008 to –(a) enable the Director of Public Health and medical practitioners to issue standing orders for the administration of restricted substances and narcotic substances by certain health professionals in certain circumstances; and(b) alter the conditions that certain medical practitioners must comply with on issuing a prescription; and(c) prescribe certain persons who are pharmaceutical chemists, midwives and registered nurses as persons who may administer to another person a vaccine listed in Schedule 4 to the Poisons List and the circumstances in which that administration is to occur; and(d) make provision in relation to certain other miscellaneous matters under the Act.