Tasmanian Numbered Acts

HEALTH LEGISLATION (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 2022 (NO. 23 OF 2022) - Act 23 of 2022 - Royal Assent 20 September 2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 2 - Acts Interpretation Act 1931 Amended

   3.      Principal Act
   4.      Section 46 amended (Definitions of certain common phrases)

   PART 3 - Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 1995 Amended

   5.      Principal Act
   6.      Section 3 amended (Interpretation)

   PART 4 - Ambulance Service Act 1982 Amended

   7.      Principal Act
   8.      Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
   9.      Section 3AB repealed

   PART 5 - Asbestos-Related Diseases (Occupational Exposure) Compensation Act 2011 Amended

   10.     Principal Act
   11.     Section 116 amended (Interpretation of Part 11 )

   PART 6 - End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021 Amended

   12.     Principal Act
   13.     Section 5 amended (Interpretation)

   PART 7 - Health (Fees) Regulations 2017 Amended

   14.     Principal Regulations
   15.     Regulation 3 amended (Interpretation)

   PART 8 - Health Act 1997 Amended

   16.     Principal Act
   17.     Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
   18.     Section 3A inserted

   PART 9 - Poisons Act 1971 Amended

   19.     Principal Act
   20.     Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
   21.     Section 10 amended (Suspension or cancellation of licence)
   22.     Section 16 amended (Licences)
   23.     Section 18 amended (Offences)
   24.     Section 25A amended (Authorisation of registered nurses and midwives by Minister)
   25.     Section 26 amended (Sale and supply of potent substances and hazardous and medicinal poisons)
   26.     Section 27 amended (Licences to sell certain substances)
   27.     Section 34 amended (Owner, &c., of hazardous poisons not to leave them about unlabelled)
   28.     Section 36 amended (Offences relating to certain restricted substances)
   29.     Section 38 amended (Limitation of application of certain provisions of Division 1 of this Part)
   30.     Section 38A amended (Interpretation)
   31.     Section 38G amended (Prescribers to check monitored medicines database before issuing prescription for monitored medicine)
   32.     Section 38H amended (Dispensers to check monitored medicines database before dispensing monitored medicine)
   33.     Section 42 amended (Power to prohibit the sale, &c., of a new drug)
   34.     Section 45 amended (Restriction of importation)
   35.     Section 47 amended (Sale and supply of narcotic substances, prohibited plants, and prohibited substances)
   36.     Section 48 amended (Possession of narcotic substances, &c.)
   37.     Section 49 amended (Prohibition of possession of prohibited plants except under licence)
   38.     Section 59 amended (Regulations relating to narcotics and narcotic substances)
   39.     Section 59C amended (Offence to make available drugs of dependence, &c.)
   40.     Section 59E amended (Authority for making drugs available to certain patients)
   41.     Section 83A amended (Possession of pipe, &c.)
   42.     Section 90 amended (Powers of inspectors with respect to licensed premises, &c.)
   43.     Section 90C amended (Personal searches)
   44.     Section 93 amended (Regulations)

   PART 10 - Poisons Regulations 2018 Amended

   45.     Principal Regulations
   46.     Regulation 3 amended (Interpretation)
   47.     Regulation 5 amended (Manufacturing chemists and wholesale chemists)
   48.     Regulation 11 amended (Licences to manufacture, &c., narcotic substances for scientific purposes)
   49.     Regulation 15 amended (Inquiries, &c., before supplying narcotic substance to patient)
   50.     Regulation 16 amended (Supply of narcotic substances)
   51.     Regulation 18 amended (Narcotic substances register to be kept by certain persons)
   52.     Regulation 23 amended (Emergency prescribing and dispensing of narcotic substances)
   53.     Regulation 27 amended (Dispensing of narcotic substances (S8))
   54.     Regulation 31 amended (Supply of narcotic substances in medical institution)
   55.     Regulation 35 amended (Minister may grant nurse's authority in certain circumstances)
   56.     Regulation 47 amended (Emergency prescribing and dispensing of restricted substances)
   57.     Regulation 48 amended (Continued dispensing without prescription in specified circumstances)
   58.     Regulation 51 amended (Dispensing prescriptions for restricted substances (S4))
   59.     Regulation 53 amended (Emergency supply of restricted substances other than specified psychotropic substances)
   60.     Regulation 54 amended (Supply of restricted substance in medical institution)
   61.     Regulation 54A amended (Administration of certain vaccines)
   62.     Regulation 55 amended (Information about drugs)
   63.     Regulation 58 amended (Supply of potent substances by pharmacists)
   64.     Regulation 61 amended (Obtaining potent substances through misrepresentation)
   65.     Regulation 63 amended (Supply of restricted substances to patients)
   66.     Regulation 82 amended (Prescribed persons for section 38(1)(i) of Act)
   67.     Regulation 87 amended (Prescription, &c., of certain substances prohibited, unless authorised by Secretary)
   68.     Regulation 93 amended (Wholesale dealing)
   69.     Regulation 95C amended (Prescribed dispenser)
   70.     Regulation 96 amended (Interpretation)
   71.     Regulation 97 amended (Drugs and Therapeutics Committee)
   72.     Regulation 110 amended (Special provisions as to containers for narcotic substances)
   73.     Regulation 114 amended (Labelling of dispensed medicines)
   74.     Regulation 124 amended (Reporting of acquisition and disposal of relevant substances)
   75.     Regulation 127 amended (Administration of certain substances by disability service workers)
   76.     Regulation 129 amended (Administration of certain substances by school staff)
   77.     Regulation 130 amended (Administration of certain substances by TasTAFE employees)
   78.     Regulation 131 amended (Administration of certain substances by child carers, &c.)
   79.     Regulation 132 amended (Administration of certain substances by foster-parents)
   80.     Regulation 133 amended (Administration of certain substances by aged-care workers in residential care services)
   81.     Regulation 134 amended (Administration of certain substances by aged-care workers in community care services)
   82.     Regulation 135 amended (Administration of certain substances by carers)
   83.     Regulation 136 amended (Administration of certain substances to detainees)
   84.     Regulation 138 amended (Possession of pseudoephedrine)
   85.     Schedule 1 amended (Requirements in relation to Narcotic Substances Register)

   PART 11 - Public Health Act 1997 Amended

   86.     Principal Act
   87.     Section 10 substituted
   88.     Section 151 amended (Removal and destruction)

   PART 12 - Public Trustee Act 1930 Amended

   89.     Principal Act
   90.     Section 3 amended (Interpretation)

   PART 13 - Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 Amended

   91.     Principal Act
   92.     Section 74 amended (Interpretation of Division 2 of Part VI)

   PART 14 - Legislation rescinded

   93.     Legislation rescinded

   PART 15 - Concluding Provision

   94.     Repeal of Act
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