Pharmacy Control Act 2001
70AFailure to notify Authority
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70A Failure to notify Authority
[Section 70A Inserted by No. 47 of 2010, s. 28, Applied:01 Feb 2011]
(1) In this section –
[Section 70A Subsection (1) amended by No. 22 of 2016, s. 18, Applied:01 Jan 2017] relevant event, in relation to a person, means –
(a) for an individual –
(i) his or her registration as a pharmacist under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania) is suspended or cancelled or made subject to a condition or another restriction; or
(ii) he or she is charged, whether in this State or elsewhere, with an offence punishable by imprisonment for a term of 12 months or longer; or
(iii) he or she is convicted of, or is the subject of a finding of guilt for, an offence, whether in this State or elsewhere, punishable by imprisonment; and
(b) for a body corporate, there is a change to the membership or particulars of the body corporate; and
(c) for any person –
(i) the person's authority under a law of a State or Territory to obtain, possess, sell or supply a scheduled medicine or a class of scheduled medicines is cancelled or restricted; or
(ii) there is a change of trustees, beneficiaries or, if applicable, unit holders of a trust in which the person has any legal or equitable interest, being a trust that holds an interest in a pharmacy business in this State;
[Section 70A Subsection (1) amended by No. 22 of 2016, s. 18, Applied:01 Jan 2017] scheduled medicine means a substance included for the time being in Schedule 2, 3, 4 or 8 to the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP) produced by the Australian Committee for Chemicals Scheduling (AACS), being a committee of the regulatory body known as the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which is a part of the Commonwealth Government Department responsible for the administration of the ;