AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

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Poisons Ordinance 1985

No. 4 of 1985

I, The ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Australian Antarctic Territory Act 1954.

Dated 22 August 1985.

 J. A. ROWLAND

 Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

BARRY O. jONES

Minister of State for Science

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Health

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An Ordinance to amend the Poisons Regulations of the Australian Capital

Territory, as in force in the Australian Antarctic Territory

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Poisons Ordinance 1985. 

Dispensing prescriptions

2. Regulation 13 of the Poisons Regulations2 of the Australian Capital Territory, as in force in the Australian Antarctic Territory, is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1)  A person shall not dispense a substance to which Part VII of the Ordinance applies or a narcotic drug unless the person is-

(a) a registered medical practitioner;

(b) a registered pharmacist;

(c) a registered veterinary surgeon;

(d) an assistant under the direct personal supervision and control of a registered medical practitioner or registered pharmacist; or

(e) a person authorised under section 10A of the Poisons and Narcotic Drugs Ordinance 1978 of the Australian Capital Territory, as in force in the Australian Antarctic Territory, to be a surgeon’s assistant.”.

NOTES

1.   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 August 1985.

2.  Regulations 1963 No. 2 as amended by 1976 No. 22; 1977 No. 4; 1979 Nos. 3 and 26; and 1980 No. 3; all of the Australian Capital Territory, in force in the Australian Antarctic Territory under section 6 of the Australian Antarctic Territory Act 1954.