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Law On Scheme Of Premises For Drug Injection (Drug Injection Rooms Act)

Original Language Title: Lov om ordning med lokaler for injeksjon av narkotika (sprøyteromsloven)

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Law on arrangement with premises for injection of drugs (the injection law).

Date LAW-2004-07-02-64
Ministry of Health and custody ministry
Last modified LO-2011-06-24-30 from 01.01.2012
Published In 2004 booklet 10
Istrontrecation 17.12.2004
Changing
Announcement 02.07.2004
Card title The Crophopper Act

Lovens title changed at laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797). See Law 24 June 2011 # 30 SECTION 5-6.

SECTION 1. Formal

The law's purpose is to facilitate the establishment of the arrangement with premises for injection of drugs (crop-room arrangement).

The sprayer arrangement should contribute to increased dignity for humans with long-term drug addiction by offering hygienic frames for injarization. Further, the crop-space arrangement should contribute to increased health safety, herunder prevention infections and contagion and provide faster assistance at overdoses, through presence and supervision of health personnel. The purpose is also to contribute to increased possibility of contact and conversations between the individual user and the aid apparatus with aim of cross-union follow-up and processing.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797).
SECTION 2. The syringe

A crop-room arrangement established in the co-hold of this law is to consider the municipal health and caregival service.

A crop-room arrangement shall contain a spratterroom (injecting room), promotion room and chat rooms. In addition, the needle-room arrangement should have access to a treatment room.

0 Changed by laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797), 24 June 2011 # 30 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1252).
SECTION 3. Establishment of crop-room arrangement and requirements for approval

After approval from the ministry, the municipality can establish a crop-room arrangement.

For users of the injection-room arrangement, the injection-room arrangement shall be a supplement to the municipal health and care services of the county.

0 Changed by laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797), 24 June 2011 # 30 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1252).
SECTION 4. Use of the crop-room arrangement

The one that with legal access to the crop room

a) injecting drugs in an approved spratterif, or
b) possess a user dose of drugs for their own use in an approved crop room or adjoining preterabout, chat rooms or treatment rooms, cannot be punished for this after the drug law Section 31, jf. Section 24 first clause.

It is allowed for the staff in the crop-room arrangement to provide users with individual and concrete counselling in connection with the injectable of drugs in the injection room.

0 Changed by laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797).
SECTION 5. Treatment of health information

A municipality that establishes an approved crop order can lead health records and process health information as mentioned in health care law Section 2 # 1 in the extent that it is necessary to fulfill the rules given in or in the co-hold of the law here.

0 Changed by laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797).
SECTION 6. Decision of admission to the injection room

A decision on admission to the injection room is not single-ordinance by the Management Act.

Have the police suspected criminal possession or use of drugs in the injection-room premises or adjoining treatment rooms, the staff without the obstacle of the health personnel Act Section 21 and the Management Act Section 13 to 13 e and on motion to give police enlightenment about whether an identified person is registered use of the injection room or not.

Access to the crop room is not necessary health assistance after patient and user rights Act Section 2-1 a. Decision of admission to the injection room cannot be charged after patient and Human Rights Act Section 7-2.

0 Changed by laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797), 24 June 2011 # 30 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1252).
SECTION 7. The relationship with the health labor law

The Health Labor Act applies to the personnel's occupational exercise in the injection-room arrangement.

The Health Labor Act Section 4 is not to the obstacle that health personnel can carry out the tasks that by rules granted in or in co-workers of the law here are added to the staff in the sprayspace arrangement.

0 Changed by laws 17 des 2004 # 91 (ikr. 17 des 2004 ifg res. 17 des 2004 # 1671), 15 June 2007 # 34, 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797).
SECTION 8. Prescription

The king can provide further provisions on the completion of the injection of the needle-space arrangement, and can be among other decisions :

a) who the crop-room arrangement shall apply to,
b) arrangements for adage regulation,
c) type and amount of drugs that the straffreedom should include,
d) arrangements for the control of type and amount of drugs a person has with them into the injection-room premises or adjoining treatment rooms,
e) which access police are going to have to the needle-room premises or adjoining treatment rooms,
f) what requirements for the staffing of the injection-room arrangement to apply,
g) how health information in health records can be processed, herunder what, information that can be processed and the purpose of the treatment,
h) that the rules of health labor law Section 39 and 40 completely or partly should not apply to health personnel that provide health care assistance in the crop-room arrangement.
0 Added by law 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797).
SECTION 9. Istrontrecation

This law takes effect from the time the King decides. 1

0 Added by law 19 June 2009 # 69 (ikr. 17 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 1797).
1 From 17 des 2004 ifg. res. 17 des 2004 # 1662.