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Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices
Miscellaneous provisions

47AEffect of grant of delegated prescribing rights

  1. If regulations made under sections 105(1)(qaa) and 105D grant delegated prescribing rights to a class of registered health professional,—

  2. an authorised prescriber who is not a designated prescriber may, in accordance with the regulations, issue a delegated prescribing order to a specified person belonging to that class of registered health professional; and
    1. the person to whom the delegated prescribing order is issued (the delegated prescriber) may prescribe specified prescription medicines, or a specified class or description of prescription medicines, in accordance with the terms of his or her delegated prescribing order.

      Notes
      • Section 47A: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 141).