South Australian Current Regulations

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (POISONS) REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 42

42—Supply or administration of drugs of dependence by registered health practitioner

        (1)         A registered health practitioner who supplies a drug of dependence for use by a person, or who administers a drug of dependence to a person, must, immediately after the drug is so supplied or administered, record the following details and sign the record:

            (a)         his or her name;

            (b)         the full name and address (or, in the case of a patient in a ward of a health service facility, the location of the ward) of the person to whom the drug is supplied or administered;

            (c)         in the case of the supply of the drug to a person acting on behalf of the person for whose use the drug is intended, the full name and address of the person for whose use the drug is intended;

            (d)         the trade name or approved name of the drug or, if it does not have either a trade or approved name, its ingredients;

            (e)         the amount and, if applicable, the strength of the drug supplied or administered;

            (f)         the date;

            (g)         the time at which the drug was supplied or administered;

            (h)         the amount of the drug (if any) now remaining—

                  (i)         in stock on the premises at which the drug is supplied or administered; or

                  (ii)         otherwise in the possession of the practitioner.

Maximum penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         Subregulation (1) does not apply to a pharmacist.

        (3)         If an error is discovered in a record made for the purposes of subregulation (1), the person authorised to make the record must correct it in the following way:

            (a)         it must not be deleted, whited out with correction fluid or erased;

            (b)         it must be ruled out or otherwise marked so as to still be clearly legible after it has been so ruled out or marked;

            (c)         a footnote or margin note reference must be made alongside the error;

            (d)         the footnote or margin note must—

                  (i)         be made on the same page as the page on which the error occurs;

                  (ii)         contain the correct information and the date of the correction;

                  (iii)         be endorsed with the name and signature of the person making the correction.

Maximum penalty: $5 000.

        (4)         The Minister may exempt a registered health practitioner, or class of registered health practitioners, from this regulation, or specified provisions of this regulation, if satisfied that the registered health practitioner, or class of registered health practitioners, has adequate arrangements for the keeping of records.