Victorian Current Acts

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 30B

    (1)     The purposes of the monitored poisons database are—

        (a)     to promote safe supply, prescription and dispensing practices; and

        (b)     to reduce harm from monitored poisons and other high risk medication; and

        (c)     to facilitate evaluation and research into monitored poisons and the operation of the monitored poisons database.

    (2)     For the purposes of establishing and maintaining the monitored poisons database and furthering the purposes of the database, the Secretary may—

        (a)     collect and store information (including records) required for the database or permitted to be collected and stored by or under this Act or the regulations; and

        (b)     require a prescribed person or prescribed class of person or a data source entity to provide information (including records) to the database in accordance with the regulations; and

        (c)     require prescribed records or prescribed information in relation to the supply of a monitored poison to be provided to the monitored poisons database in the prescribed manner or in the prescribed form; and

        (d)     use and disclose any information on the database reasonably necessary to implement and oversee the database, including but not limited to—

              (i)     disclosing information on the database to the Commonwealth, other States or Territories; and

              (ii)     receiving or collecting information for the database from the Commonwealth, other States or Territories or prescribed entities in other Australian jurisdictions; and

              (iii)     authorising in writing other prescribed entities to use and disclose information on the database; and

              (iv)     use and disclosure of information on the database in accordance with this Act or the regulations; and

        (e)     do any other thing or exercise any other power reasonably necessary—

              (i)     to implement, maintain and oversee the database; or

              (ii)     further the purposes of the database.

    (3)     Without limiting subsection (2) or any other power of the Secretary, the Secretary may enter into an agreement or a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth, other States or Territories and any entity in another Australian jurisdiction in relation to the provision of information to or from the monitored poisons database by or to that other jurisdiction.

S. 30C inserted by No. 50/2017 s. 5.