(1)  Subject to subregulation (2) , a pharmaceutical chemist, medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner must not supply to a person a substance listed in Schedule 4 unless, at the time that he or she supplies the substance, he or she also supplies to the person to whom the substance is supplied an information sheet, in the form required under regulation 9A of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 of the Commonwealth, concerning that substance.

(2)  An information sheet need not be supplied under subregulation (1) if –

(a) the substance is supplied by a pharmaceutical chemist and the prescription according to which it is dispensed bears an endorsement that it is not necessary for the pharmaceutical chemist to supply the information sheet; or

(b) in a case where a medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner supplies the substance without the intervention of a pharmaceutical chemist, the medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner is of the opinion that it is not in the patient's interests to supply the sheet.