Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to
subregulation (2) a person, other than a medical practitioner, nurse
practitioner, dentist or endorsed optometrist, shall not administer a poison
included in Schedule 4 to a patient in a hospital unless the
administration of the poison is authorised in writing on the medication chart
of the patient by a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, dentist or an
endorsed optometrist.
(2) A medical
practitioner, nurse practitioner, dentist or endorsed optometrist may verbally
authorise the administration of a poison included in Schedule 4 and shall
within 24 hours of so doing note such authorisation in writing on the
medication chart of the patient.
[Regulation 38AA inserted in Gazette
28 May 1993 p. 2596; amended in Gazette 19 Mar 1996
p. 1222; 19 Nov 2010 p. 5714; amended by Act No. 9 of
2003 s. 47.]
[Heading deleted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3663.]
[ 38B. Deleted in Gazette 24 Jun 1994
p. 2867.]
[Heading deleted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3663.]