Contact person to give unused or remaining substance to authorised disposer
125 Contact person to give unused or remaining substance to authorised disposer
If a patient revokes a self-administration decision after an authorised supplier has supplied a prescribed substance for the patient, the contact person for the patient must, as soon as practicable and not later than 14 days after the day on which the decision is revoked, give the prescribed substance to an authorised disposer.
Maximum penalty—imprisonment for 12 months.
If a patient who has made a self-administration decision dies and the patient’s death occurs after an authorised supplier has supplied a prescribed substance for the patient, the contact person for the patient must, as soon as practicable and not later than 14 days after the day on which the patient dies, give any unused or remaining substance to an authorised disposer.
Maximum penalty—imprisonment for 12 months.
In subsection (2), the reference to any unused or remaining substance is a reference to any prescribed substance the contact person knows is unused or remaining after the patient’s death.
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