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National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017
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#### 60 Keeping documents—continued dispensing supplies
(1) An approved pharmacist commits an offence if:
(a) the approved pharmacist supplies a pharmaceutical benefit to a person under subsection 89A(1) of the Act; and
(b) the approved pharmacist does not keep the following information for at least 2 years from the date the pharmaceutical benefit was supplied by the approved pharmacist:
(i) information that supports the claim for payment made under section 99AAA of the Act in relation to the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit, including the repeat authorisation form;
(ii) information, about the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit, that the approved pharmacist gives to the PBS prescriber who most recently prescribed the pharmaceutical benefit to the person.
Penalty: 0.2 penalty units.
(2) An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
> Note: The information may be kept in an electronic form (see subsection 12(2) of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999).