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POISONS ACT 1964 - SECT 36

36 .         Drugs not to be used for self administration

                Subject to section 36A, a person shall not use or attempt to use, or prescribe, any drug of addiction or specified drug for the purpose of self administration; but a person for whom a medical practitioner has prescribed a drug of addiction or a specified drug in the course of treatment of that person as a patient may take or use that drug to the extent and for the purpose for which it was so prescribed.

        [Section 36 amended by No. 12 of 1994 s. 6.]



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