2021 Bill 27

	27


First Session, 50th General Assembly 70 Elizabeth II, 2021
BILL 27
AN ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 2012
Received and Read the First Time................................................................
Second Reading............................................................................................
Committee.....................................................................................................
Third Reading...............................................................................................
Royal Assent.................................................................................................
HONOURABLE JOHN HAGGIE Minister of Health and Community Services
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Pharmacy Act, 2012 to provide that the Act does not extend to or interfere with the dispensing of necessary drugs or medicines by licensed practical nurses in the course of duty when practising with the approval and under the general supervision of a regional health authority.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 2012

Analysis

1. S.3 Amdt.
Non-application of Act

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

SNL2012 cP-12.2
as amended

1. Subsection 3(2) of the Pharmacy Act, 2012 is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) This Act shall not extend to or interfere with the dispensing of necessary drugs or medicines by registered nurses or licensed practical nurses in the course of duty when practising with the approval and under the general supervision of a regional health authority.