45AKeeping documents—continued dispensing

45A  Keeping documents—continued dispensing

 (1) If a Community Pharmacist supplies a Pharmaceutical benefit to a person under section 16A (continued dispensing), the pharmacist is to keep the following information for at least 2 years from the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit was supplied by the Community Pharmacist:

 (a) the information that supports the claim for payment made under section 24 (in effect, under section 99AAA of the National Health Act 1953) in relation to the supply of the Pharmaceutical benefit including the repeat authorisation form;

 (b) the information, about the supply of the Pharmaceutical benefit, that is given to the MPBS prescriber who most recently prescribed the Pharmaceutical benefit to the person.

Note: The document may be kept in an electronic form (see subsection 12(2) of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999).