Queensland Numbered Acts

MEDICINES AND POISONS ACT 2019 - SECT 40

40 Offences for self-prescribing or self-administering high-risk medicines

(1) A person who is authorised to prescribe a high-risk medicine must not self-prescribe the medicine unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

Examples of a reasonable excuse—

1 A person who is authorised to prescribe a high-risk medicine is injured in an accident and asks someone to urgently administer a high-risk medicine that is an analgesia to the person.

2 A person who is authorised to prescribe a high-risk medicine self-prescribes the medicine because the person urgently needs it to avoid a break in the person’s regular treatment for a seizure disorder.

(2) A person who is authorised to deal with a high-risk medicine must not self-administer a dose of the medicine unless—

(a) someone else who is authorised to prescribe the medicine has prescribed the medicine for the person’s treatment; or

(b) someone else who is authorised to give a treatment dose of the medicine has given the medicine to the person for the person’s treatment; or

(c) the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(3) In this section—

"high-risk medicine" means a medicine prescribed by regulation to be a high-risk medicine.