Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 No 31
Current version for 6 July 2012 to date (accessed 21 May 2013 at 19:52)
Part 5Division 1Section 36AA

36AA   Medicines to be dispensed by pharmacists

(1)  A person, other than a pharmacist or a person acting under the personal supervision of a pharmacist, must not dispense or compound any substance specified in the Poisons List on the prescription of a medical practitioner, a nurse practitioner, a midwife practitioner, an optometrist, a podiatrist, a dentist or a veterinary practitioner.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2)  Subsection (1) does not prevent:
(a)  a medical practitioner, a nurse practitioner, a midwife practitioner, an optometrist, a podiatrist, a dentist or a veterinary practitioner from supplying a substance to which that subsection refers in the ordinary course of his or her profession, or
(b)  a person from supplying a substance to which that subsection refers under, and in accordance with the conditions of, an authority issued under this Act or the regulations.
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