Administration of medication

(1) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless— (a) that administration is authorised; and (b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96. (2) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that written notice is given to a parent or other family member of a child as soon as practicable, if medication is administered to the child under an authorisation referred to in subregulation (5)(b). (3) A nominated supervisor of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless— (a) that administration is authorised; and (b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96. (4) A family day care educator must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the educator as part of a family day care service unless— (a) that administration is authorised; and (b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96. (5) In this regulation the administration of medication to a child is authorised if an authorisation to administer the medication— (a) is recorded in the medication record for that child under regulation 92; or (b) in the case of an emergency, is given verbally by— (i) a parent or a person named in the child's enrolment record as authorised to consent to administration of medication; or (ii) if a parent or person named in the enrolment record cannot reasonably be contacted in the circumstances, a registered medical practitioner or an emergency service.