Fact sheets and supporting documents
The Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (MPA) and regulations are in effect from 27 September 2021. Fact sheets and supporting documents to help understand the requirements of the legislation are available and will be updated here.
Medicines
General
- Purposes of the Act (PDF 230 kB)
- Overview of the medicine framework (PDF 300 kB)
- Categories of medicines and dealings (PDF 217 kB)
- Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
- Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 196 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 291 kB)
- Departmental standard - medicines (PDF 267 kB)
- Emergency orders, emerging risk declarations and public warnings (PDF 282 kB)
- Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
- Reviews of decisions, stays and appeals (PDF 200 kB)
- Compliance, monitoring and enforcement (PDF 552 kB)
Approved persons
- Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
- Dental practitioners (PDF 269 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 291 kB)
- Immunisation programs - registered nurses (PDF 219 kB)
- Medical practitioners (PDF 232 kB)
- Midwives (PDF 236 kB)
- Nurse practitioners (PDF 230 kB)
- Nurses (PDF 230 kB)
- Offence to self-prescribe and/or self-administer high-risk medicines (PDF 89 kB)
- Pharmacists (PDF 555 kB)
- Relevant institutions (aged care facilities, hospitals, prisons, detention centres) (PDF 732 kB)
- Veterinary surgeons (PDF 245 kB)
Substance authorities (licences and approvals)
- Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 196 kB)
- Manufacturers (PDF 312 kB)
- Commonwealth law manufacturers (PDF 222 kB)
- Medicated feed (PDF 430 kB)
- Wholesale suppliers (PDF 242 kB)
- When is a wholesale licence required by the MPA (PDF 491 kB)
- Medicinal cannabis wholesalers (PDF 233 kB)
- Wholesale representatives (PDF 195 kB)
- Carriers, transport and logistics (PDF 221 kB)
- Fees - medicines (PDF 231 kB)
- General approvals (PDF 269 kB)
- Acute health conditions at isolated sites (PDF 274 kB)
- Emergency First Aid (PDF 198 kB)
- Emergency First Aid—Standing orders (PDF 77 kB)
- Emergency management of animals (PDF 242 kB)
- Immunisation programs - registered nurses (PDF 219 kB)
Functional and technical requirements
- Disposal and destruction of diversion-risk medicine waste (PDF 173 kB)
- Storage and record-keeping requirements for Schedule 8 medicines (PDF 242 kB)
- Standing orders (PDF 120 kB)
- Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
- Image based prescriptions (PDF 85 kB)
- Health practitioners working under a clinical protocol (PDF 209 kB)
- Writing lawful prescriptions (PDF 162 kB)
- Medicated feed (PDF 430 kB)
- Prescribing and dispensing unregistered medicinal cannabis products (PDF 165 kB)
- Interstate prescribers (PDF 90 kB)
First aid, institutions and other places
Templates and supporting documents
- Substance Management Plan Standard Guidance Document (PDF 462 kB)
- Template—Purchase order (PDF 124 kB)
- Template—Standing order for general approval (emergency first aid) (PDF 128 kB)
- Template—Written prescription for a group of animals (medicated feed) (PDF 2304 kB)
- Template—HMP for immunisation program (DOCX 43 kB)
- Substance management plan (SMP) - checklist PDF (PDF 237 kB) | WORD (DOCX 85 kB)
Monitored medicines
Fact sheets
- Monitored medicines – Risk mitigation strategies for prescribers (PDF 200 kB)
- Monitored medicines – Risk mitigation strategies for pharmacists (PDF 192 kB)
- About Monitored Medicines Standard (PDF 215 kB)
- Monitored Medicines – legal obligations for General practitioners, private specialists, and community pharmacists (PDF 197 kB)
- Monitored Medicines – legal obligations for Hospital and Health Service prescribers and dispensers (pharmacists) (PDF 194 kB)
- Monitored Medicines – legal obligations for Prescribers and dispensers (pharmacists) at other health facilities, including prisons (PDF 195 kB)
- Monitored Medicines – legal obligations for Prescribing and dispensing in a private hospital or day hospital (PDF 193 kB)
- Monitored Medicines – legal obligations for Prescribers and dispensers (pharmacists) in residential and aged care facilities (PDF 194 kB)
- Prescribing psychostimulants (PDF 110 kB)
Poisons, prohibited substances and pest management
Fact sheets
- Poisons and pest management for horticulture businesses (excluding primary producers) (PDF 297 kB)
- Poisons and pest management for primary producers (PDF 483 kB)
- Approved persons – aerial distribution (PDF 259 kB)
- Authorised Biosecurity and Nature Conservation Officers (PDF 252 kB)
- Industrial users of cyanide (PDF 232 kB)
- Local government (PDF 251 kB)
- Manufacturing licence – poisons (PDF 283 kB)
- Poisons terms (PDF 392 kB)
- Research and analytical laboratories using schedules substances (PDF 265 kB)
- Wholesale licence – poisons (PDF 242 kB)
- Retail licence for Schedule 7 poisons (PDF 245 kB)
- Transport and logistics services (PDF 235 kB)
- Do I need a substance management plan (PDF 258 kB)
- Transitional arrangements (PDF 253 kB)
- Universities using regulated poisons (PDF 305 kB)
- Commercial baiting operators (PDF 236 kB)
- Fees - pest management (PDF 192 kB)
- Fees - poisons (PDF 200 kB)
Supporting documents
- Substance management plans checklist – research, teaching & analysis (DOCX 621 kB)
- Risk assessment – commercial baiting (PDF 228 kB)
- Activity risk management plan template – pest control activity (DOCX 30 kB)
- Activity risk management plan template – fumigation activity (DOCX 27 kB)
- Flyer – pest management (PDF 195 kB)
Last updated: 22 June 2022
