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#### 55A Records relating to medication chart prescriptions
55A Records relating to medication chart prescriptions
> > (1) A pharmacist who supplies any substance to a person on a medication chart prescription must keep the prescription.
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> > Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.
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> > (2) A pharmacist who supplies any substance to a person on a medication chart prescription must endorse the following particulars (in ink) on the prescription on each occasion on which the substance is dispensed—
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> > > (a) the date on which the substance was supplied,
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> > > (b) the address of, or number identifying, the pharmacy from which the substance was supplied,
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> > > (c) the prescription reference number,
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> > > (d) the quantity supplied.
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> > Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.
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> > (3) The operator of a residential care facility in which medication charts are used must ensure that an employee of the facility makes a record in the medication chart of a resident of the facility of the administration of any restricted substance to the resident.
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> > Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.
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> **cl 55A:** Ins 2015 (138), Sch 1 \[11\].