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POISONS REGULATIONS 1965 - REG 41D

41D .         Certain medicines for schools and child care services, application of Act to

        (1)         In this regulation —

        auto-injector means a device containing a single pre‑measured dose of a poison, with a mechanism for administering the dose by injection;

        child care service has the meaning given in the Child Care Services Act 2007 ;

        inhaler means a device containing a poison, with a mechanism for administering a metered dose of the poison by inhalation;

        school means —

            (a)         a school within the meaning of the School Education Act 1999 section 4; and

            (b)         a community kindergarten registered under Part 5 of that Act.

        (2)         Sections 23(1), 31, 32(c) and (d), 34, 46 and 47 of the Act, and regulations 33 and 35A do not apply in relation to a medicine listed in an item in the Table which is supplied or sold —

            (a)         in the course of activity conducted by a school or child care service; and

            (b)         as emergency treatment for a condition listed in that item; and

            (c)         by the method listed in that item.

Table

Item

Medicine

Condition

Method

1.

Adrenaline

Anaphylaxis

Administering by auto-injector

2.

Salbutamol

Acute asthma

Administering by inhaler

        (3)         Section 50 of the Act, and regulations 16, 19, 19AA and 19A do not apply in relation to a medicine listed in an item in the Table if the medicine —

            (a)         is kept for the purpose of being supplied or sold in the course of activity conducted by a school or child care service as emergency treatment for a condition listed in that item; and

            (b)         is in a container listed in that item.

Table

Item

Medicine

Condition

Container

1.

Adrenaline

Anaphylaxis

Auto-injector

2.

Salbutamol

Acute asthma

Inhaler


        [Regulation 41D inserted in Gazette 25 May 2012 p. 2207-8.]

[Heading deleted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3663.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3664.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3664.]



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