Pharmacy Regulations 2010 (WA)

Western Australia

Pharmacy Act 2010

Western Australia

Pharmacy Act 2010

Pharmacy Regulations 2010

These regulations are the Pharmacy Regulations 2010.

These regulations come into operation as follows —

• (a)

  regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;

• (b)

  the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the Pharmacy Act 2010 section 3 comes into operation.

For the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition of pharmacy business in section 3(1) of the Act —

• (a)

  the following types of permit referred to in the Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016 in the Table to regulation 79(2) are prescribed —

  • (i)

    a Health service permit;

  • (ii)

    a Health service permit — Department/ hospital;

  • (iii)

    a Health service permit — Public sector agency;

  • (iv)

    a Government permit;

  • (v)

    a Research/Education permit;

• (b)

  the type of licence that is a Schedule 2 retail licence referred to in the Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016 in the Table to regulation 74(2) is prescribed.

[Regulation 3 inserted: Gazette 17 Jan 2017 p. 411.]

An application for the registration of premises as a pharmacy must be accompanied by the following —

• (a)

  plans, and specifications, of the premises that are sufficiently detailed to show that the premises meet the requirements for the minimum standards of fitness for the competent and safe practice of pharmacy prescribed under regulation 13;

• (b)

  unless the premises comprise the whole of a building, plans of the building where the premises are situated that show the location of the premises within the building;

• (c)

  the relevant application fee specified in Schedule 2;

• (d)

  the following information in respect of each person who owns, or hold a proprietary interest in, the pharmacy business that is, or is to be, carried on at the premises —

  • (i)

    the nature of the interest held by the person;

  • (ii)

    the name and address of the person;

  • (iii)

    a telephone number and email address for the person;

• (e)

  the following information in respect of the premises, or the pharmacy business that is, or is to be, carried on at the premises —

  • (i)

    a copy of any bill of sale over any fittings or equipment in the premises, or to be used in the premises, or for the purposes of the pharmacy business;

  • (ii)

    a copy of any sale agreement for the premises or the pharmacy business;

  • (iii)

    a copy of any partnership agreement for the pharmacy business;

  • (iv)

    a copy of any lease for the premises;

  • (v)

    a copy of any agreement under which any person has, or will have, a proprietary interest in the pharmacy business;

  • (vi)

    a copy of any agreement between persons who hold…