Factsheets and supporting documents
Access factsheets and supporting documents to help understand the requirements of the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019.
Medicines
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- Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
- Categories of medicines and dealings (PDF 178 kB)
- Compliance, monitoring and enforcement (PDF 542 kB)
- Departmental standards - medicines (PDF 251 kB)
- Emergency orders, emerging risk declarations and public warnings (PDF 282 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 144 kB)
- Overview of the medicine framework (PDF 300 kB)
- Purposes of the Act (PDF 230 kB)
- Reviews of decisions, stays and appeals (PDF 200 kB)
- Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 196 kB)
- Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
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- As-of-right authorisation to deal with immunisation medicines (PDF 239 kB)
- Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 144 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Dental practitioners (PDF 322 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Medical practitioners (PDF 281 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Midwives (PDF 272 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Nurse practitioners (PDF 276 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Nurses (PDF 350 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Pharmacists (PDF 316 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Veterinary surgeons (PDF 286 kB)
- Offence to self-prescribe and/or self-administer high-risk medicines (PDF 89 kB)
- Pharmaceutical professions and QScript (PDF 356 kB)
- Relevant institutions (aged care facilities, hospitals, prisons, detention centres) (PDF 732 kB)
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- Application form - Electronic storage and supply units for Schedule 8 medicines (PDF 299 kB)
- Disposal and destruction of diversion-risk medicine waste (PDF 165 kB)
- Health practitioners working under a clinical protocol (PDF 209 kB)
- Image based prescriptions (PDF 448 kB)
- Interstate prescriptions for dispensing in Queensland (PDF 181 kB)
- Medicated feed (PDF 430 kB)
- Medicines in beauty treatment/cosmetic business (PDF 146 kB)
- Prescribing and dispensing unapproved medicinal cannabis (PDF 202 kB)
- Prescribing psychostimulants (PDF 248 kB)
- Schedule 8 – MDMA and psilocybine (PDF 254 kB)
- Standing orders (PDF 126 kB)
- Standing orders - Emergency management of animals (PDF 141 kB)
- Standing orders - Relevant institutions (DOCX 43 kB)
- Storage and record-keeping requirements for Schedule 8 medicines (PDF 242 kB)
- Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
- Therapeutic vapes (PDF 206 kB)
- Writing Lawful Prescriptions (PDF 264 kB)
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- Standing orders - Relevant institutions (DOCX 43 kB)
- Substance management plan (SMP) - checklist PDF (PDF 237 kB) | WORD (DOCX 85 kB)
- Substance Management Plan Standard Guidance Document (PDF 462 kB)
- Template—HMP for immunisation program (DOCX 43 kB)
- Template—Purchase order (PDF 124 kB)
- Template—Standing order for general approval (emergency first aid) (PDF 128 kB)
- Template—Standing order for general approval (emergency management of animals) (DOCX 45 kB)
- Template—Written prescription for a group of animals (medicated feed) (PDF 2346 kB)
Monitored medicines
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- Changes to the Monitored Medicines Standard: Frequently asked questions (PDF 602 kB)
- Checking QScript (PDF 397 kB)
- QScript look-up exemptions: Frequently asked questions (PDF 533 kB)
- Queensland Opioid Treatment Program: A guide to key legislative requirements under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (PDF 537 kB)
Poisons, prohibited substances and pest management
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- Do I need a substance management plan (PDF 253 kB)
- 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 209 kB)
- Retail licence for Schedule 7 poisons (PDF 245 kB)
- Transport and logistics services (PDF 235 kB)
- Transitional arrangements (PDF 253 kB)
- Universities using regulated poisons (PDF 305 kB)
- Commercial baiting operators (PDF 173 kB)
- Pest management high-risk and sensitive places licence endorsements
(PDF 225 kB) - Rural landholders using Restricted S7 poisons for invasive animal control
(PDF 174 kB)
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