Queensland Numbered Acts

MEDICINES AND POISONS ACT 2019 - SECT 51

51 Agents and carers

(1) A person does not commit an offence against this Act if the person—

(a) supplies a medicine by giving it to someone else (a
"patient" ) if the medicine has been lawfully supplied for the therapeutic treatment of the patient; or

(b) for lawfully helping a patient, administers a medicine in accordance with the approved label of the medicine; or

(c) administers a medicine to an animal in accordance with the approved label of the medicine.

Examples of persons to whom subsection (1) applies—

• a patient’s family member who supplies a medicine to the patient in accordance with the medicine’s dispensing label or packaging

• a child’s parent who administers a medicine to the child in accordance with the medicine’s dispensing label or packaging

• a dog’s owner who administers a medicine to the dog in accordance with the medicine’s approved label

(2) However, subsection (1) does not apply to a person to the extent the person is authorised under this Act to supply or administer the medicine.

Examples of persons to whom subsection (2) applies—

• an approved person administering a medicine in the authorised way

• a person to whom an emergency order applies

(3) Also, subsection (1) does not apply to a person prescribed by regulation to be a person to whom the subsection does not apply.