New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS REGULATION 2008 - REG 55A

55A Records relating to medication chart prescriptions

(1) A pharmacist who supplies any substance to a person on a medication chart prescription must keep the prescription.

: Maximum penalty--15 penalty units.

(2) A pharmacist who supplies any substance to a person on a medication chart prescription must endorse the following particulars (in ink) on the prescription on each occasion on which the substance is dispensed--

(a) the date on which the substance was supplied,

(b) the address of, or number identifying, the pharmacy from which the substance was supplied,

(c) the prescription reference number,

(d) the quantity supplied.

: Maximum penalty--15 penalty units.

(3) The operator of a residential care facility in which medication charts are used must ensure that an employee of the facility makes a record in the medication chart of a resident of the facility of the administration of any restricted substance to the resident.

: Maximum penalty--15 penalty units.