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MEDICINES, POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 2012 - SECT 243J

Relevant prescriber must check database before prescribing monitored medicine

    (1)     A relevant prescriber commits an offence if:

        (a)     the relevant prescriber issues a prescription for a monitored medicine to another person; and

        (b)     the relevant prescriber does not check the information held in the monitored medicines database in relation to the other person before issuing the prescription; and

        (c)     the prescription is not issued in circumstances that are prescribed by regulation to be exempt.

Maximum penalty:     50 penalty units.

    (2)     An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.

    (3)     It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if the relevant prescriber has a reasonable excuse.


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