Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT 1983 No. 35, 1983 - SECT 9

9. Section 103 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (4A)
and substituting the following sub-sections:

''(4A) A person shall not, in purported compliance with the requirements of
regulations made by virtue of sub-section (1) of section 84AA, include, or
cause or permit to be included, on a prescription written by a medical
practitioner or participating dental practitioner any information connected
with the status of the person to whom the prescription relates that is, to his
knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular.

''(4B) A person shall not, in purported compliance with the requirements of
regulations made under sub-section (2) of section 84AA, in so far as those
regulations relate to a prescription communicated to an approved
pharmaceutical chemist, communicate to that pharmaceutical chemist any
information connected with the status of the person to whom the prescription
relates that is, to his knowledge, false or misleading in a material
particular.''.