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
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- Purposes of the Act (PDF 230 kB)
- Overview of the medicine framework (PDF 300 kB)
- Categories of medicines and dealings (PDF 178 kB)
- Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
- Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 196 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 144 kB)
- Departmental standards - medicines (PDF 251 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 542 kB)
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- Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
- Extended practice authorities (PDF 144 kB)
- Immunisation programs - registered nurses (PDF 219 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 230 kB)
- Key legislative requirements - Pharmacists (PDF 283 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)
- Veterinary surgeons (PDF 245 kB)
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- Application form - Electronic storage and supply units for Schedule 8 medicines (PDF 314 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 149 kB)
- Prescribing and dispensing unapproved medicinal cannabis (PDF 202 kB)
- Prescribing psychostimulants (PDF 195 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 202 kB)
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- 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—Standing order for general approval (emergency management of animals) (DOCX 45 kB)
- Standing orders - Relevant institutions (DOCX 43 kB)
- Template—Written prescription for a group of animals (medicated feed) (PDF 2346 kB)
- Template—HMP for immunisation program (DOCX 43 kB)
- Substance management plan (SMP) - checklist PDF (PDF 237 kB) | WORD (DOCX 85 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 518 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 242 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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