Poisons Act 1964 (WA)

Western Australia

This Act was repealed by the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 (No. 13 of 2014) s. 137 as at 30 Jan 2017 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 17 Jan 2017 p. 403).

Western Australia

Poisons Act 1964

An Act to regulate and control the possession, sale and use of poisons and other substances; to constitute a Poisons Advisory Committee; and for incidental and other purposes.

This Act may be cited as the Poisons Act 1964 1.

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation 1.

[3. Deleted by No. 10 of 1998 s. 76.]

[4. Deleted by No. 48 of 1995 s. 4.]

• (1)

  In this Act unless the context requires otherwise —

Advisory Committee means the Poisons Advisory Committee constituted under Part II;

authorised officer means —

• [(a)

  deleted]

• (b)

  a police officer; or

• (c)

  a person declared under section 52A to be an authorised officer;

automatic machine means any machine or mechanical device used or capable of being used for the purpose of selling or supplying goods without the personal manipulation or attention of the seller or supplier or his employee or other agent at the time of the sale or supply;

bloodborne infectious disease means Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or any other infectious disease that is carried in the blood;

CEO has the meaning given by section 3 of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984;

container, in relation to a thing, means any bottle, vessel, tube, sachet, ampoule, syringe, vial, or other receptacle in which the thing is contained;

dentist means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law ( Western Australia ) in the dental profession whose name is entered on the Dentists Division of the Register of Dental Practitioners kept under that Law;

department means the department of the Public Service of the State principally assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act;

document includes any tape, disc or other device or medium on which information is recorded or stored mechanically, photographically, electronically or otherwise;

drug of addiction means any substance included in Schedule 8 or 9;

endorsed health practitioner, in relation to a scheduled medicine or class of scheduled medicine, means a health practitioner who is registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) to practise a health profession and whose registration is endorsed to administer, obtain, possess, prescribe, sell, supply or use the scheduled medicine or class of scheduled medicine;

internal use means administration —

• (a)

  orally, except for topical effect in the mouth; or

• (b)

  for absorption and the production of a systemic effect —

• (i)

  by way of a body orifice other than the mouth; or

• (ii)

  parenterally, other than by application to unbroken skin;

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