Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A registered medical practitioner, a nurse practitioner or a pharmacist must notify the Secretary as soon as practicable of a reportable drug event.
Penalty: 100 penalty units.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a reportable drug event is one or more of the following—
(a) for a pharmacist, being requested or directed to sell, supply or dispense any drug of dependence, Schedule 8 poison, Schedule 9 poison or Schedule 4 poison for any person—
(i) in greater quantities than appears to be reasonably necessary; or
(ii) more frequently than appears to be reasonably necessary;
(b) for a registered medical practitioner, having reason to believe that the practitioner's patient is a drug‑dependent person in circumstances where—
(i) the patient requests or seeks prescription of a Schedule 9 poison; or
(ii) the registered medical practitioner intends to treat or is treating the patient with a Schedule 9 poison;
(c) any other event, or class of event, which the Secretary declares, under subsection (3), is a reportable drug event.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the Secretary, by notice published in the Government Gazette, may declare an event, or a class of event (including any event that occurs outside Victoria), to be a reportable drug event.
Pt 2 Div. 10 Subdiv. 2 (Heading and s. 33) amended by
Nos 10002 s. 4(e)(f) (as amended by No. 10087
s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 40)),
(g)–(i), 10262 s. 4, 42/1993 s. 47(4), 12/1994 s. 4(1),
23/1994 s. 118(Sch. 1 item 17.8), 9/1998 s. 7, 46/1998
s. 7(Sch. 1), 94/2000 s. 50(1)(2), 17/2008 s. 7,
repealed by No. 50/2017 s. 8.
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Pt 2 Div. 10 Subdiv. 3 (Heading and ss 33A– 33D) inserted by No. 17/2008 s. 7.
Subdivision 3—Schedule 9 poisons
S. 33A inserted by No. 17/2008 s. 7.