61CEligibility

61C Eligibility

[Section 61C Inserted by No. 47 of 2010, s. 18, Applied:01 Feb 2011]

(1)  [Section 61C Subsection (1) amended by No. 22 of 2016, s. 12, Applied:01 Jan 2017] A person is eligible to hold an interest in a pharmacy business if, and only if –

(a) [Section 61C Subsection (1) amended by No. 22 of 2016, s. 12, Applied:01 Jan 2017] in the case of a natural person, he or she is a pharmacist, whether or not that pharmacist has had his or her registration suspended within the meaning of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania); or

(b) in the case of a partnership, each member of the partnership is a pharmacist whether or not one or more of those pharmacists have had their registrations suspended within the meaning of the National Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania); or

(c) [Section 61C Subsection (1) amended by No. 22 of 2016, s. 12, Applied:01 Jan 2017] [Section 61C Subsection (1) amended by No. 22 of 2016, s. 12, Applied:01 Jan 2017] [Section 61C Subsection (1) amended by No. 13 of 2019, Sched. 1, Applied:18 Jun 2019] in the case of a body corporate, each director of the body corporate is a pharmacist and each other member of the body corporate is a pharmacist or a close relative of a pharmacist and –

(i) the controlling interest in the body corporate is held by a pharmacist or by persons who are pharmacists; and

(ii) all the shares and the beneficial interest in those shares are held by pharmacists or close relatives of a pharmacist; and

(iii) control and supervision of any pharmacy services carried on by the pharmacy business are vested in a person who is a pharmacist or in persons who are pharmacists; or

(d) the person is a body corporate lawfully permitted to call itself a Friendly Society and –