Restrictions on Lead Paint and Dangerous Poison Supply
Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 (No 2)
Introduced by: Rachel Stephen-Smith (ALP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
Manufacturers, suppliers and users cannot use paint or tinters that contain more than a set amount of lead.
Suppliers of human-use products cannot use containers banned by the medicines and poisons standard.
Licence holders can only supply dangerous poisons to people allowed to use them under the medicines and poisons standard.
The minister must declare a protected area around an approved medical facility if the facility manager applies for one.
Doctors or nurse practitioners must have the necessary expertise in palliative care before suggesting voluntary assisted dying as an option.
Coordinating practitioners must record the acceptance of a voluntary assisted dying transfer request in a patient's health record.
Contact persons for voluntary assisted dying have four business days instead of two to notify the coordinating practitioner of a death.
Health professionals operating under special event exemptions are now exempt from offences under the Public Health Act 1997 instead of the Skin Penetration Procedures Act 1994.