Medicines Regulations 1984

37 Safety containers

(1)

No person shall sell any tablet, or other single item in solid form that is intended to be taken orally, being or comprising a medicine or belonging to a class of medicines to which this regulation applies, unless the tablet or item is enclosed in a safety container.

(2)

Subclause (1) shall not apply—

(a)

where an authorised prescriber directs, either on the prescription or otherwise,—

(i)

that a medicine is not to be sold enclosed in a safety container; or

(ii)

that he or she does not wish the name of the medicine to appear on the label; or

(b)

where a pharmacist is of the opinion that, because of the age or infirmity of a particular person, a medicine to be used by that person should not be enclosed in a safety container; or

(c)

in the case of capsules, pills, powder, or other solid dose forms, prepared in a pharmacy with reference to the particular needs of a patient.

(3)

[Revoked]

(4)

This regulation applies to the following medicines:

aspirin, and its salts; and medicines containing aspirin or its salts:

iron, in medicines for human use containing more than 24 milligrams of elemental iron per dose:

paracetamol; and medicines containing paracetamol.

(5)

This regulation applies to the following classes of medicines:

barbiturates:

phenothiazine, and derivatives of phenothiazine and their salts, except dimethothiazine, methdilazine, promethazine, and trimeprazine, and their salts and molecular compounds:

tricyclic, tetracyclic, and analogous antidepressants.

Regulation 37(2)(a): amended, on 1 October 2005, by regulation 7 of the Medicines Amendment Regulations 2005 (SR 2005/255).

Regulation 37(2)(a)(ii): amended, on 11 October 2001, by regulation 9(b) of the Medicines Amendment Regulations 2001 (SR 2001/232).

Regulation 37(3): revoked, on 1 August 2011, by regulation 13 of the Medicines Amendment Regulations 2011 (SR 2011/245).