Introduction
If you wish to supply drugs of addiction at your health facility, for example at a licensed nursing home or private health facility, you'll need to apply for a licence.
Eligibility
An individual or corporation is eligible if they can show the Secretary, NSW Health that:
- they're fit and proper to be a licensee, and
- the premises are appropriate for the supply of drugs of addiction.
What you need
- the Application for a Licence to Supply Drugs of Addiction – PDF
- details of the applicant and contact person
- facility's name and address
- full company extract from ASIC (if applicable)
- copy of the certificate of incorporation (if applicable)
- copy of the Act incorporating the church or organisation (if applicable)
- copy of proof as a charitable institution from the ATO (if applicable)
- Statutory Declaration/s – PDF
- Fitness and Probity Check Form/s – PDF
- National Police Check
- ASIC certificate of registered business name
- details of the uses to be made of the drugs of addiction
- your payment.
How to apply
- Complete and sign the Application for a Licence to Supply Drugs of Addiction – PDF
- Gather all the required documentation.
- Make your payment online at the NSW Ministry of Health payment portal.
- Email the completed application form, the required documents and a copy of the payment receipt to the email address on the form.
More information
- If the licence isn't granted, the reasons for refusal will be provided to the applicant.
- Time frames – PDF
- Circumstances that 'stop the clock' – PDF
Last updated: 28 November 2023