Victorian Numbered Regulations

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2017 (SR NO 13 OF 2017) - REG 6

After regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations insert —

        " 4A     Meaning of chart instruction

    (1)     A "chart instruction" is an order—

        (a)     that provides for a person to be treated with a Schedule 3 poison or Schedule 4 poison; and

        (b)     that is given by complying with the procedure set out in the Commonwealth Regulations for writing a medication chart prescription within the meaning of those Regulations.

    (2)     An order may be a "chart instruction"—

        (a)     whether or not the Schedule 3 poison or Schedule 4 poison in respect of which the order is given is a pharmaceutical benefit within the meaning of the Commonwealth Regulations; and

        (b)     whether or not the person who writes the instruction is a PBS prescriber within the meaning of the Commonwealth Regulations.

Note

Under the Commonwealth Regulations, an instruction that is not for a pharmaceutical benefit, or that is not given by a PBS prescriber, is not a medication chart prescription.".