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Second
Session, 46th General Assembly 58
Elizabeth II, 2009 |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE
PHARMACY ACT |
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Received and Read the First Time................................................................................................... |
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Second |
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Committee............................................................................................................................................ |
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Royal Assent...................................................................................................................................... |
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HONOURABLE
Minister of Health and Community Services |
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Ordered
to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly |
EXPLANATORY NOTES This Bill would amend the Pharmacy Act. Clause 1 of the Bill would amend the Act to expand the definition of "prescription" to include a prescription authorized by a prescriber practicing outside the province. Clause 2 of the Bill would add a new section to the Act to set out what a pharmacist must do before filling a prescription authorized by a prescriber practicing outside the province. |
A AN ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT Analysis 1.
S.2 Amdt. 2.
S.24.1 Added Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows: SNL1994 cP-12.1 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 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 (a) the prescriber is licensed and practises in (b) the prescriber belongs to a class of persons
who, if licensed in ŠEarl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer |