Public Health (Community Pharmacy Ownership) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No 1) (ACT)

Public Health (Community Pharmacy Ownership) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No 1)

Subordinate Law SL2012-30

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following regulation under the Public Health Act 1997.

Dated 29 June  2012.

Katy Gallagher

Minister

Chris Bourke

Minister

Public Health (Community Pharmacy Ownership) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No 1)

Subordinate Law SL2012-30

made under the

Public Health Act 1997

1. Name of regulation

   This regulation is the Public Health (Community Pharmacy Ownership) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No 1).

2. Commencement

   This regulation commences on 2 July 2012.

   NoteThe naming and commencement provisions automatically commence on the notification day (see Legislation Act, s 75 (1)).

3. Legislation amended

   This regulation amends the Public Health Regulation2000.

4. New section 62

   in division 5.6, insert

5. Ownership of pharmacy business

   (1)A person must not own a pharmacy business unless the person is—

   (a)a pharmacist; or

   (b)a complying pharmacy corporation.

   Maximum penalty:  10 penalty units.

   (2)In this section:

   community pharmacy—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008, dictionary.

   complying pharmacy corporation—see the Health Act 1993, section 128A (Complying pharmacy corporation).

   medicine—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008, section 11.

   own, for a pharmacy business—

   (a)includes having a legal or beneficial interest in the pharmacy business; but

   (b)does not include having an interest in the pharmacy business only because of being the public trustee or the personal legal representative of a deceased pharmacist.

   pharmacy business means a business providing pharmacy services at a community pharmacy.

   pharmacy services includes—

   (a)the supply, compounding or dispensing of a medicine; and

   (b)advice and counselling on the effective use of a medicine.

6. Dictionary, note 2

   insert

   ·     pharmacist

Endnotes

1. Notification

   Notified under the Legislation Act on 29 June 2012.

2. Republications of amended laws

   For the latest republication of amended laws, see align="center">© Australian Capital Territory 2012