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Statutes of Newfoundland and Labrador 2009


CHAPTER 10

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT

(Assented to May 28, 2009)

Analysis


        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

        2.   S.24.1 Added
Out of province prescriptions


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1994 cP-12.1
as amended

        1. Paragraph 2(p) of the Pharmacy Act is amended by striking out the word "or" at the end of subparagraphs (ii) and (iii.1), by adding at the end of subparagraph (iv) the word "or" and by adding immediately after that subparagraph the following:

                     (v)  a prescriber licensed to practice in a province or territory of Canada other than Newfoundland and Labrador, in accordance with section 24.1,

 

        2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after section 24 the following:

Out of province prescriptions

   24.1 A pharmacist may dispense a drug pursuant to a prescription authorized by a prescriber licensed to practice in a province or territory of Canada other than Newfoundland and Labrador if the pharmacist has taken reasonable steps to ensure that

             (a)  the prescriber is licensed and practises in Canada; and

             (b)  the prescriber belongs to a class of persons who, if licensed in Newfoundland and Labrador, would be entitled by law to prescribe that drug in Newfoundland and Labrador.