(1) In this section blank prescription form means (a) a form that the Commission established under section 4 of the Health Insurance Commission Act 1973 of the Commonwealth has supplied or caused to be supplied to a health professional for the purposes of writing a prescription in accordance with the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960 of the Commonwealth; or(b) a form that a health professional has privately prepared or caused to be prepared for the purpose of writing a prescription, being a form that identifies, and purports to be a prescription form of, that health professional;conduct includes the making of an oral or written representation;health professional means (a) a medical practitioner; and(b) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania) in the dental profession as a dentist; and(c) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania) in the nursing profession who is endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia to practise as a nurse practitioner; and(d) a person who may lawfully practise as a veterinary surgeon, whether in this State or in a Territory or another State.prescription means a prescription of a health professional, for the supply of a substance comprising or consisting of a controlled drug or controlled precursor;unlawfully altered , in relation to a prescription, means altered by a person other than the health professional who issued it.(2) A person must not (a) forge a prescription; or(b) possess a prescription knowing it to have been forged or unlawfully altered; or(c) utter a prescription knowing it to have been forged or unlawfully altered.Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.(3) A person must not unlawfully alter a prescription.Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.(4) A person must not obtain a prescription by means of conduct that the person knows to be false, misleading or deceptive.Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.(5) A person must not, without lawful excuse, possess a blank prescription form.Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.