Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents i Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2004 S.R. No. 43/2004 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objective 1 2. Authorising provisions 1 3. Definitions 1 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 3 -- 1 of 4 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents 1 STATUTORY RULES 2004 S.R. No. 43/2004 Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2004 The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations: Dated: 18 May 2004 Responsible Minister: BRONWYN PIKE Minister for Health STEPHANIE LENN Acting Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objective The objective of these Regulations is to amend the definition of "health service" to clarify its application to nursing homes and to insert a definition of "nursing home" for the purposes of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 1995. 2. Authorising provisions These Regulations are made under sections 132 and 132B of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981. 3. Definitions In regulation 4 of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 19951 — (a) in the definition of "health service"— (i) omit "(including nursing homes)"; and -- 2 of 4 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 43/2004 Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2004 2 (ii) after "surgical services" insert "but does not include a health service which is an aged care service within the meaning of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth unless that aged care service is a nursing home"; (b) after the definition of "nurse" insert— ' "nursing home" means— (a) an aged care service within the meaning of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth which was a nursing home within the meaning of the National Health Act 1953 of the Commonwealth where an approval within the meaning of that Act was in force, or had been deemed to be in force, under Part V of that Act immediately before 1 October 1997; or (b) an aged care service within the meaning of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth where all places within the meaning of that Act are allocated to the provision of a high level of residential care within the meaning of that Act;'. ═══════════════ r. 3 -- 3 of 4 -- Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 43/2004 Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2004 3 ENDNOTES 1 S.R. No. 63/1995. Reprint No. 3 as at 1 November 2002. Reprinted to S.R. No. 86/2002 and subsequently amended by S.R. No. 67/2003. Endnotes -- 4 of 4 --