Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

POISONS REGULATIONS 1965 - REG 51AA

51AA .         Drug addicts to disclose addiction to medical practitioners etc.

                A drug addict must, when seeking to obtain from a medical practitioner or dentist — 

            (a)         a drug of addiction; or

            (b)         a prescription or document prescribing the use, sale or supply of a drug of addiction,

                disclose to the medical practitioner or dentist the fact that he or she is a drug addict.

        [Regulation 51AA inserted in Gazette 12 Oct 1984 p. 3267; amended in Gazette 11 Apr 1997 p. 1832; 21 Apr 2009 p. 1360.]