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Pharmacy Regulation Act 2010
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30 Personal supervision of pharmacy or pharmacy department
(1) A pharmacy or a pharmacy department must be personally supervised by a registered pharmacist at all times it is open for business.
(2) Any of the following persons is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 60 penalty units if the person knowingly or negligently allows a pharmacy service to be provided at a pharmacy or a pharmacy department unsupervised by a registered pharmacist—
(a) in the case of a pharmacy, the person licensed to carry on the pharmacy business of that pharmacy;
(b) in the case of a pharmacy department, the person licensed to carry on the pharmacy department;
(c) the registered pharmacist who is regularly and usually in charge of the pharmacy or pharmacy department;
(d) the registered pharmacist (if he or she is not the pharmacist referred to in paragraph (c)) who had in respect of that period of time been placed in charge of and had undertaken to personally supervise the pharmacy or pharmacy department.
(3) In this section ***personally supervised by a registered pharmacist*** means personally supervised by a registered pharmacist who is present at the pharmacy or the pharmacy department.