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
Fact sheets
- 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 203 kB)
- Emergency orders, emerging risk declarations and public warnings (PDF 282 kB)
- Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
- Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 200 kB)
- Reviews of decisions (PDF 241 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 291 kB)
- Departmental standard (PDF 267 kB)
- Disposal of S8 medicines (PDF 100 kB)
- Manufacturers (PDF 312 kB)
- Commonwealth law manufacturers (PDF 222 kB)
- Wholesale suppliers (PDF 242 kB)
- Wholesale representatives (PDF 195 kB)
- Medicinal cannabis wholesalers (PDF 233 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 219 kB)
- Emergency management of animals (PDF 242 kB)
- Mines (PDF 335 kB)
- Medicated feed (PDF 430 kB)
- Ships (PDF 195 kB)
- Royal Flying Doctor Service (PDF 297 kB)
- Major events (PDF 256 kB)
- Naloxone (PDF 227 kB)
- Image based prescriptions (PDF 88 kB)
- Medical practitioners
- Nurse practitioners
- Nurses (PDF 230 kB)
- Midwives (PDF 236 kB)
- Immunisation programs - registered nurses (PDF 219 kB)
- Dental practitioners (PDF 269 kB)
- Pharmacists (PDF 555 kB)
- Veterinary surgeons (PDF 243 kB)
- Health practitioners working under a clinical protocol (PDF 204 kB)
- Compliance, monitoring and enforcement (PDF 552 kB)
- When is a wholesale licence required by the MPA (PDF 491 kB)
- Writing lawful prescriptions (PDF 1397 kB)
Supporting documents
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)
Supporting documents
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 281 kB)
Last updated: 19 October 2021
