Queensland Consolidated Regulations

DRUGS MISUSE REGULATION 1987 - REG 4

4 Prescribed procedure for disposal of dangerous drugs

For the purposes of section 125 of the Act , the prescribed procedure for the disposal of a thing is—

(a) in the case where the thing is a trace amount of a dangerous drug contained in a hypodermic syringe or needle, by disposing of the hypodermic syringe or needle in accordance with the procedures prescribed in section 3 ; or

(b) in any other case, at the first reasonable opportunity, by giving—

(i) such thing; and

(ii) where such thing is contained in a hypodermic syringe or needle, such syringe or needle;

to an inspector under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 .