Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 167

167 Midwives

(1) To the extent necessary to practise midwifery, a midwife is authorised to—

(a) obtain a restricted drug; and

(b) possess a restricted drug at the place where the person practises midwifery; and

(c) administer a restricted drug to the person for whom it has been dispensed under the instructions stated by the dispenser; and

(d) administer or supply a restricted drug—

(i) on the oral or written instruction of a doctor, endorsed midwife, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant; or

(ii) under the midwives DTP.

(2) Despite subsection (1) , to the extent necessary to practise midwifery, a midwife is authorised to—

(a) possess a nitrous oxide mixture at any place; or

(b) administer a nitrous oxide mixture to a woman as an analgesic during childbirth.

(3) In this section—

"childbirth" means the process of labour and delivery beginning with uterine contractions and ending with the expulsion of the placenta and membranes from the woman giving birth.