Offences for self-prescribing or self-administering high-risk medicines
40 Offences for self-prescribing or self-administering high-risk medicines
A person who is authorised to prescribe a high-risk medicine must not self-prescribe the medicine unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
Examples of a reasonable excuse—
1 A person who is authorised to prescribe a high-risk medicine is injured in an accident and asks someone to urgently administer a high-risk medicine that is an analgesia to the person.
2 A person who is authorised to prescribe a high-risk medicine self-prescribes the medicine because the person urgently needs it to avoid a break in the person’s regular treatment for a seizure disorder.
A person who is authorised to deal with a high-risk medicine must not self-administer a dose of the medicine unless—
someone else who is authorised to prescribe the medicine has prescribed the medicine for the person’s treatment; or
someone else who is authorised to give a treatment dose of the medicine has given the medicine to the person for the person’s treatment; or
the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
In this section—
high-risk medicine means a medicine prescribed by regulation to be a high-risk medicine.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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