131Supplying medicines on requisitions

131 Supplying medicines on requisitions (1) The following are the requirements for the supply of a medicine on a requisition: (a) the medicine is supplied in accordance with the requisition (including the requisition as changed by the person supplying the medicine at the oral direction of the person issuing the requisition); Note For changes to a requisition by the person supplying a medicine on a requisition (see Act, s 29 (3)). (b) if the requisition is a written requisition—the requisition (c) if the requisition is an oral requisition—the requisition complies with section 56. (2) However, if the requisition does not comply with section 55 or section 56 (as appropriate), a pharmacist may supply the medicine on the requisition if satisfied that it is not practicable for a complying requisition to be issued for the medicine.

supplied in accordance with the requisition, for a requisitioned medicine, includes supplying another brand of the medicine that is a bioequivalent form of the requisitioned medicine.