Poisons Amendment Regulations 1993 (WA)

28 May 1993)	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	2595
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POISONS ACT 1964

POISONS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1993

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Poisons Amendment Regulations

1993.  

Commencement

2.     These regulations shall come into operation on the day on which the

Poisons (Scheduled Substances) Amendment Order 1993 comes into operation.

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Principal regulations

3.     In these regulations the Poisons Regulations 1965* are referred to as the

principal regulations.

[* Reprinted in the Gazette of 7 January 1993.]

Regulations 29, 29A and 29B
are repealed

4.     Regulations 29, 29A and 29B of the principal regulations are repealed.

Regulation 30 amended

5.     Regulation 30 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

"regulations 29 or" and substituting the following —

regulation

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Regulation 38A amended

6.   Regulation 38A (2) (a) of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in subparagraph (i) by deleting "patient at a hospital" and

substituting the following —

• person admitted to a hospital as a patient

(b) in subparagraph (ii) by deleting "a matron" and substituting the

following —

the director of nursing and

(c) in subparagraph (iii) by deleting "patient in a hospital" and

substituting the following —

• person admitted as a patient to a hospital

Regulation 38AA inserted

7. After regulation 38A of the principal regulations, the following regulation

is inserted —

Administration of Fourth Schedule drug in hospital

38AA. (1) Subject to subregulation (2) a person, other than a medical practitioner or a dentist, shall not administer a Fourth Schedule drug to a patient in a hospital unless the administration of the drug is authorized in writing on the medication chart of the patient by a medical practitioner or a dentist.

A medical practitioner or dentist may verbally authorize the administration of a Fourth Schedule drug and shall within 24 hours of so doing note such authorization in writing on the

(2)

medication chart of the patient. OP•

Regulation 38J amended

8. Regulation 38J of the principal regulations is amended in the Table to the regulation by inserting after the item "4-aminopyridine." the following item —

ceftiofur.

Regulation 40 amended

8. Regulation 40 (1) of the principal regulations is amended in

paragraph (f) by deleting "a matron" and substituting the following —

" the Director of Nursing

Regulation 44 amended

10.   Regulation 44 (5) of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in paragraph (f) by deleting "supplied." and substituting the
following —

• supplied; and "; and

(b)	by inserting after paragraph (f) the following paragraph —
• (g) his or her signature against each entry.

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Regulation 46 amended

11.   Regulation 46 of the principal regulations is amended by inserting after

subregulation (1) the following subregulation —

(la) A person referred to in subregulation (1) shall sign each

entry he or she makes in the record.

Regulation 50 amended

12.   Regulation 50 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in paragraph (b) by deleting "matron" and substituting the following —

" director of nursing "; and

(b) by inserting after paragraph (b) the following paragraphs —

di

(c)	subject to paragraph (d), a person, other than a medical practitioner or dentist shall not administer a drug of addiction to a patient in a hospital unless the administration of the drug is authorized in writing on the medication chart of the patient by a medical practitioner or a dentist;
(d)	a medical practitioner or dentist may verbally authorize the administration of a drug of addiction and shall within 24 hours of so doing note such authorization in writing on the medication chart of the patient.

Appendix J amended

13.   Appendix J to the principal regulations is amended by inserting before

the item commencing "HYDROCORTISONE" the following item —

" ASTEMIZOLE, when included in the Third Schedule.

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.