South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts9—Issue of prescriptions and supply of certain substances
(1) A visiting health
professional may give a prescription for a prescription drug only if
authorised to do so by a special event order.
(2) The Minister may,
by a special event order—
(a)
authorise a specified visiting health professional, all visiting health
professionals or visiting health professionals of a specified class to give
prescriptions for prescription drugs in the course of providing health care
services in accordance with this Act; and
(b)
authorise a specified person or persons of a specified class to supply
prescription drugs on such a prescription; and
(c)
authorise a specified visiting health professional, all visiting health
professionals or visiting health professionals of a specified class to be
supplied with any substance by wholesale; and
(d)
authorise a specified person or a person of a specified class to supply any
substance by wholesale to any visiting health professional, but only if the
person is licensed or otherwise authorised under the Controlled Substances
Act 1984 to supply the substance by wholesale to a medical practitioner.
(3) The Minister must
not make a special event order containing an authorisation referred to in
subsection (2) unless the Minister is satisfied that adequate
arrangements are in place to ensure that the drugs or substances concerned
will only be prescribed for and supplied to persons to whom visiting health
professionals are authorised to provide health care services under this Act.
(4) A special event
order may impose conditions on any authorisation referred to in this section
that is conferred by the order.
(5) A condition
imposed under subsection (4) may apply generally or to a particular
special event or a particular class of persons.