Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 217

217 Improper use of prescriptions for restricted drugs

(1) A person must not use a prescription, or a document purporting to be a prescription, for a restricted drug to obtain the drug if the prescription or other document is written by someone other than a person—

(a) who may prescribe the drug; and

(b) whose name, professional qualifications and address are legibly written on the prescription.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) A person must not obtain a restricted drug by using a prescription that the person knows falsely states the name or current residential address of the person for whom the drug is prescribed.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(3) A person must not obtain a restricted drug by using a prescription that has on it an alteration, obliteration or other writing made by someone other than the prescriber who wrote the prescription.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(4) A person must not change, obliterate or otherwise write on a prescription, unless the person is the prescriber who wrote the prescription.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(5) Subsections (3) and (4) do not apply to something written on a prescription under this chapter by a dispenser.