Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 171

171 Pharmacists

(1) To the extent necessary to practise pharmacy, a pharmacist is authorised to—

(a) obtain a restricted drug; or

(b) dispense a restricted drug; or

(c) sell a restricted drug (other than by wholesale) on a purchase order; or

(d) possess a restricted drug at a dispensary or institution; or

(e) for a pharmacist practising pharmacy at a public sector hospital—supply a restricted drug, on the oral or written instruction of a doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant, to a person being discharged from the hospital or an outpatient of the hospital; or

(f) destroy, or otherwise dispose of, a restricted drug in a way that poses no risk, or only a negligible risk, of a person gaining access to the drug.

Note—

For an approved pharmacist under the National Health Act 1953 (Cwlth) , see also the National Health (Continued Dispensing) Determination 2012 (Cwlth) .

(2) A trainee pharmacist is authorised to do, under a pharmacist’s direction and personal supervision, anything a pharmacist is authorised to do under subsection (1) , (5) or (6) .

(3) During a declared public health emergency relating to an infectious medical condition, a pharmacist is authorised to administer or supply a restricted drug under the communicable diseases DTP.

(4) While an influenza emergency declaration is in force, a pharmacist is authorised to administer or supply a restricted drug under the pandemic influenza program DTP.

(5) A pharmacist is authorised to administer a vaccine to a person who is 10 years or more under the pharmacist vaccination program DTP.

(6) A pharmacist is authorised to supply a UTI drug to a person under the pharmacist UTI trial DTP.

(7) A pharmacist is authorised to obtain, possess or use a restricted drug, other than a regulated restricted drug, for a genuine research or teaching purpose.

(8) In this section—

"pharmacist UTI trial DTP" means the drug therapy protocol called ‘Drug Therapy Protocol—Pharmacist UTI Trial’.

"UTI drug" means a restricted drug that is for the treatment of a urinary tract infection, stated in the pharmacist UTI trial DTP.