Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 265AA

265AA Trainees in certain occupations

(1) This section applies to a person (a
"trainee" ) who is undergoing a course of training, the successful completion of which will qualify the trainee to carry out a relevant occupation.

(2) To the extent necessary to undergo the course of training, the trainee is authorised to administer an S2 or S 3 poison under the personal supervision of an authorised person carrying out the relevant occupation.

(3) However, the trainee may only administer a poison under subsection (2) , if—

(a) the authorised person is authorised under this regulation to administer the poison; and

(b) the trainee administers the poison under the conditions (if any) that would apply to the administration of the poison by the authorised person.

(4) In this section—

"relevant occupation" means an occupation as a clinical perfusionist, dentist, doctor, indigenous health worker, midwife, endorsed midwife, nuclear medicine technologist, optometrist, endorsed optometrist, orthoptist, physiotherapist, podiatrist, surgical podiatrist, endorsed podiatrist, registered nurse, respiratory scientist, speech pathologist or veterinary surgeon.