Queensland Consolidated Regulations

EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS - REG 93

93 Administration of medication

(1) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless—

(a) that administration is authorised; and

(b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.

Penalty—

Penalty: $2200.

(2) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that written notice is given to a parent or other family member of a child as soon as practicable, if medication is administered to the child under an authorisation referred to in subregulation (5)(b).

Penalty—

Penalty: $1100.

(3) A nominated supervisor of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless—

(a) that administration is authorised; and

(b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.

Penalty—

Penalty: $2200.

(4) A family day care educator must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the educator as part of a family day care service unless—

(a) that administration is authorised; and

(b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.

Penalty—

Penalty: $2200.

(5) In this regulation the administration of medication to a child is authorised if an authorisation to administer the medication—

(a) is recorded in the medication record for that child under regulation 92; or

(b) in the case of an emergency, is given verbally by—

(i) a parent or a person named in the child’s enrolment record as authorised to consent to administration of medication; or

(ii) if a parent or person named in the enrolment record cannot reasonably be contacted in the circumstances, a registered medical practitioner or an emergency service.