Poisons Standard Amendment (Hydroxychloroquine) Instrument 2020
I, Tony Gill, as delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Health, make the following instrument.
Dated 2 April 2020
Tony Gill
Principal Medical Adviser
Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch
Health Products Regulation Group
Department of Health
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Poisons Standard February 2020
This instrument is the Poisons Standard Amendment (Hydroxychloroquine) Instrument 2020.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 3 April 2020 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under paragraph 52D(2)(a) of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.
Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule, and any other item has effect according to its terms.
Poisons Standard February 2020
1 Appendix D of Part 5 of Schedule 2 (item 8)
Repeal the item, substitute:
8. | Poisons for which the initial treatment of a patient must be authorised by one of the following specialist health practitioners: | |
| (1) | following the commencement of the Poisons Standard Amendment (Hydroxychloroquine and Salbutamol) Instrument 2020—a medical practitioner registered under State or Territory legislation that forms part of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, as a specialist in any of the following recognised specialties: (a) dermatology; (b) emergency medicine; (c) intensive care medicine; (d) paediatrics and child health; (e) physician; |
| (2) | following the commencement of the Poisons Standard Amendment (Hydroxychloroquine) Instrument 2020—a dental practitioner registered under State or Territory legislation that forms part of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, as a specialist in the recognised specialty of oral medicine. |
| HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE. | |