Health (Drugs and Poisons) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2003 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 2003 No. 29 Health Act 1937 HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 1) 2003 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Insertion of new s 256A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 256A Particular individuals who provide child care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of appendix 9 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

s1 2 s3 Health (Drugs and Poisons) Amendment Regulation No. 29, 2003 (No. 1) 2003 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2003 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the Health(DrugsandPoisons)Regulation 1996. 3 Insertion of new s 256A After section 256— insert— ‘256A Particular individuals who provide child care ‘ (1) This section applies to an individual who is— (a) a licensee of a child care service; or (b) an adult engaged by a licensee of a child care service to provide child care at a child care centre or under a family day care scheme. ‘ (2) The individual is authorised to administer an S2 or S3 poison to a child at a child care centre or a place where child care is provided under a family day care scheme if the poison is administered— (a) under the centre’s or scheme’s policy and practice, under the ChildCareAct1991, for the storage and administration of medication for children; and (b) with the written consent of a parent or guardian of the child. ‘ (3) In this section— “child care” see the Child Care Act 1991 , section 3. 1 “child care centre” see the Child Care Act 1991 , section 3. “family day care scheme” see the Child Care Act 1991 , section 3. “guardian” , of a child, means any of the following persons— 1 Child Care Act 1991 , section 3 (Definitions)

s4 3 s4 Health (Drugs and Poisons) Amendment Regulation No. 29, 2003 (No. 1) 2003 (a) a person who is recognised in law as having all the duties, powers, responsibilities and authority relating to the child that, by law, parents have relating to their children; 2 (b) a person in whose favour a parenting order is in force under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth); (c) a person who is entitled to the care and custody of the child under the Adoption of Children Act 1964 . “licensee of a child care service” means a person who holds a licence to conduct a child care service under the Child Care Act 1991 . “parent” , of a child, includes— (a) for any child—the spouse of a parent of the child; and (b) for an Aboriginal child—a person who, under Aboriginal tradition, is regarded as a parent of the child; and (c) for a Torres Strait Islander child—a person who, under Island custom, is regarded as a parent of the child; and (d) a carer of the child under the Child Protection Act 1999 .’. 4 Amendment of appendix 9 (Dictionary) Appendix 9, definition “prison”, ‘ 1988 .’— omit, insert— ‘ 2000 , schedule 3. 3 ’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 6 March 2003. 2. Notified in the gazette on 7 March 2003. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Health. 2 See the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth), part VII (Children), division 2 (Parental responsibility). 3 Corrective Services Act 2000 , schedule 3 (Dictionary)

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