sec.22Particular activities relating to licensed pharmacy business prohibited

sec.22 Particular activities relating to licensed pharmacy business prohibited

A person, other than an owner of a licensed pharmacy business, must not do or purport to do any of the following— control how pharmacy services involving medicines are provided to the public by the business; restrict the types of medicine or health service the business may provide to the public; Queensland Needle and Syringe Program service opioid dependency treatment program service sexual or reproductive health service require medicine for the business to be bought from a particular supplier; impose a sales target for the business in relation to a particular medicine. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to— an employee carrying out the duties of an employee of a licensed pharmacy business; or a person imposing a requirement about a licensed pharmacy business that is about only 1 or more of the following— opening hours; advertising, branding, product displays or other marketing activities; information technology systems; staff training; staff uniforms. A provision of a contract, agreement or arrangement is void to the extent it purports to authorise or permit an activity in relation to a licensed pharmacy business that is prohibited under subsection (1) . (sec.22-ssec.1) A person, other than an owner of a licensed pharmacy business, must not do or purport to do any of the following— control how pharmacy services involving medicines are provided to the public by the business; restrict the types of medicine or health service the business may provide to the public; Queensland Needle and Syringe Program service opioid dependency treatment program service sexual or reproductive health service require medicine for the business to be bought from a particular supplier; impose a sales target for the business in relation to a particular medicine. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units. (sec.22-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to— an employee carrying out the duties of an employee of a licensed pharmacy business; or a person imposing a requirement about a licensed pharmacy business that is about only 1 or more of the following— opening hours; advertising, branding, product displays or other marketing activities; information technology systems; staff training; staff uniforms. (sec.22-ssec.3) A provision of a contract, agreement or arrangement is void to the extent it purports to authorise or permit an activity in relation to a licensed pharmacy business that is prohibited under subsection (1) .

• (a) control how pharmacy services involving medicines are provided to the public by the business;
• (b) restrict the types of medicine or health service the business may provide to the public; Examples of a health service— 1 Queensland Needle and Syringe Program service 2 opioid dependency treatment program service 3 sexual or reproductive health service