120Authorisation conditions for dispensing medicines—Act,

120 Authorisation conditions for dispensing medicines—Act, (1) An authorisation under section 110 or section 490 to dispense a (a) the medicine is dispensed in accordance with the requirements of section 121; Note Only a pharmacist may dispense a medicine (see sch 1). (b) if the prescription is dispensed under section 121 (2), the pharmacist notes on the prescription the reasons that the pharmacist was satisfied that it was not practicable for a complying prescription to be issued for the medicine; (c) if the prescription is changed by a pharmacist at the oral direction of the prescriber—the note of the change complies with section 122; (d) the medicine is labelled in accordance with section 123; (e) the dispensed prescription is marked in accordance with section 124; (f) the dispensing of the prescription is recorded in accordance with section 125; (g) if the prescription is an oral prescription for the dispensing of the medicine, or is faxed by a prescriber to a pharmacist, and the pharmacist does not receive an original of the prescription within 14 days after the day the prescription is given—the pharmacist must, within 24 hours after the end of the 14-day period, tell the chief health officer, in writing, of the failure to receive the original prescription;

(h) the prescription, if completed, and the record for paragraph (f), are kept at the pharmacy or, if the chief health officer approves in writing another place, the place approved by the chief health officer, for at least 2 years after the day the prescription becomes a completed prescription. (2) However, subsection (1) (d), (e), (f) and (h) do not apply if the prescription is written for an in-patient at a hospital in the patient’s medical records. completed—a prescription is completed when— (a) for a single prescription—the prescription is dispensed; or (b) for a repeat prescription—the last repeat of the prescription is dispensed; or (c) for a national residential medication chart prescription––the prescription is dispensed for the last time.