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Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2012
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243K Pharmacist must check database before supplying monitored medicine (1) A pharmacist commits an offence if: (a) the pharmacist supplies a monitored medicine to another (b) the pharmacist does not check the information held in the monitored medicines database in relation to the other person before supplying the monitored medicine; and (c) the supply is not made in circumstances that are prescribed by regulation to be exempt. subsection (1) if the pharmacist has a reasonable excuse.