Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) A "chart instruction" is an order—
(a) that provides for a person to be supplied with a Schedule 3 poison, Schedule 4 poison or Schedule 8 poison; and
(b) that is given by complying with the procedure set out in the Commonwealth Regulations for writing a medication chart prescription within the meaning of those Regulations.
(2) An order may be a "chart instruction"—
(a) whether or not the Schedule 3 poison, Schedule 4 poison or Schedule 8 poison in respect of which the order is given is a pharmaceutical benefit within the meaning of the Commonwealth Regulations; and
(b) whether or not the person who writes the instruction is a PBS prescriber within the meaning of the Commonwealth Regulations.
Notes
1 Under the Commonwealth Regulations, a medication chart prescription must be for a pharmaceutical benefit and must be given by a PBS prescriber. Under subregulation (2), chart instruction includes medication chart prescriptions and also includes other orders that do not meet those requirements.
2 See regulations 28(3) and 29(2) in relation to the writing of other information on a hospital medication chart or residential medication chart.
Chapter 2—Schedule 4, 8 and 9 poisons