Pharmacy (Amendment) Act 1984 (NSW)

PHARMACY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1984, No. 134

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Act No. 134, 1984.

An Act to amend the Pharmacy Act, 1964, with respect to the appointment of members to the Pharmacy Board of New South Wales. [Assented to, 4th December, 1984.]

Pharmacy (Amendment) 1984

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—-

Short title.

1.    This Act may be cited as the “Pharmacy (Amendment) Act, 1984”.

Amendment of Act No. 48, 1964.

2.          The Pharmacy Act, 1964, is amended in the manner set forth in

Schedule 1.

Savings provision—existing members of the Pharmacy Board of New South

Wales.

3.           A member of the Pharmacy Board of New South Wales who held ofiBce

immediately before the date of assent to this Act (not being the member referred to in section 4 ( 2 ) (b) of the Pharmacy Act, 1964) shall, subject to the Pharmacy Act, 1964, as amended by this Act, continue in office as such a member until the expiration of a period of 3 years from the date of the member’s appointment.

SCHEDULE 1.

(Sec. 2.)

Amendments to the Pharmacy Act, 1964.

( I ) Section 4 (2) (aa)—

Omit the paragraph, insert instead:—

(aa) one shall be a pharmacist who is ordinarily resident in, and who practises pharmacy in. New South Wales (otherwise than in the County of Cumberland, the County of North­ umberland or the City of Wollongong) and who shall be elected by pharmacists in the prescribed manner;

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SCHEDULE 1—continued.

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(2) Section 4 (3 )—

Omit the subsection, insert instead;—^

(3) Subject to this Act—

(a)	a member of the Board, other than the member referred to in subsection (2) (b), who has been duly elected or nom­ inated pursuant to subsection (2) shall hold office for a period of 3 years from the date of appointment; and
(b)	a member of the Board, other than the member referred to in subsection (2) (b), who has been nominated pursuant to subsection (6) or (7) shall hold office for a period of 3 years from the date of appointment or, where, in the instrument of appointment of the member, a lesser period is specified as the period for which the member shall hold office, for such lesser period as is so specified,

but is eligible (if otherwise qualified) for re-appointment.

(3) Section 4 (6), (7 )—

After section 4 (5 ), insert:—

(6) To the extent that there is a failure to nominate a sufficient number of persons for the purposes of an election under subsection (2) (a) or (aa) or to the extent that such an election fails for any other reason, the Governor may appoint a person or persons, as the case may require, eligible for election and nominated by the Minister, to be a member or members of the Board and the person or persons so nominated shall, on being appointed, be deemed to be a person or persons elected in the prescribed manner,

(7) Where, for the purposes of subsection (2) (c) or (d), a nomination of a person for appointment as a member of the Board is not made within the time or in the manner specified by the Minister in a notice in writing given to the body entitled to make the

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SCHEDULE continued.

Amendments to the Pharmacy Act, 1964— continued.

nomination, the Governor may appoint a person, nominated by the Minister, to be a member of the Board and the person so nominated shall, on being appointed, be deemed to be a person appointed on the nomination of the body entitled to make the nomination.