ACT Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008 s53-55: Prescribed witnesses sign register entries for administration and discarding within 24 hours, and no one cancels, changes, deletes or obliterates a register entry except the maker amending it as prescribed

What does s53-55 require?

A person prescribed as a witness to the administration or discarding of a prescribed substance who witnesses it must sign the register entry as witness as soon as practicable and within 24 hours (100 penalty units, 1 year or both) (ss 53, 54). Cancelling, changing, deleting or obliterating a register entry is an offence (100 penalty units, 1 year or both) unless the person who made the entry amends it as the regulation prescribes (s 55).