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Pharmacy Regulation Act 2010
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8 Provision of information to Authority
The Authority may require a person referred to in section 5(1) to give the Authority any information or produce any documents relating to the person's ownership or proprietary interest in a pharmacy business.
9 Offence not to comply with section 7 or 8
A person must not fail or refuse to give the Authority any information required under section 7 or 8 or fail or refuse to produce any documents required under section 8 or wilfully mislead the Authority when giving the information.
1. 60 penalty units in the case of a natural person;
300 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
10 Pharmacy businesses at separate premises
Each pharmacy business carried on at separate premises including a pharmacy business carried on by the same person or under the same name as another pharmacy business is to be treated as a separate pharmacy business for the purposes of this Act.
11 Undue influence
A provision in a bill of sale, mortgage, lease or in any other commercial arrangement in respect of a pharmacy or pharmacy business that gives to any person other than the person licensed under section 38 to carry on the pharmacy business—
(a) the right to control the manner in which the pharmacy business is carried on; or
(b) the right of access to books of accounts or records kept in respect of that business, otherwise than for the purpose of determining whether or not the conditions of the relevant document are being complied with; or
(c) the right to receive any consideration that varies according to the profits or takings in respect of the business—
is void.
Division 2—Caps on growth of pharmacy ownership