Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a health practitioner:
(a) supplying a prescribed Schedule 8 substance under a Schedule 8 authorisation or Schedule 8 exemption; or
(b) a health practitioner who is a pharmacist supplying a prescribed Schedule 8 substance on a prescription issued by an authorised prescriber.
(2) The health practitioner must ensure the person to whom the substance is supplied self-administers the substance in the health practitioner's presence.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(3) An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply if, under a code of practice, takeaway doses of the substance are authorised for the person.
(5) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (2) if the defendant establishes a reasonable excuse.
(6) In this section:
"prescribed" Schedule 8 substance means a Schedule 8 substance prescribed by a code of practice for this section.