45Keeping documents-other than for continued dispensing or medication chart prescriptions

45 Keeping documents-other than for continued dispensing or medication chart prescriptions

(1) If a Community Pharmacist supplies a Pharmaceutical benefit, other than a Pharmaceutical benefit that is: (a) a dangerous drug (defined below); or (b) supplied under section 16A (continued dispensing); or (c) supplied on the basis of a medication chart prescription; the Community Pharmacist must keep a document specified in subsection (2) that relates to the supply for at least 2 years after the supply. (2) For subsection (1), the following documents are specified: (a) in the case of supply upon a prescription not bearing instructions to supply the Pharmaceutical benefit more than once: (i) for a paper‑based prescription—the pharmacist/patient copy and the Medicare Australia/DVA copy; or (ii) for an electronic prescription—the electronic prescription; (ab) in the case of supply upon a prescription bearing instructions to supply the Pharmaceutical benefit more than once, if it is supplied on the first occasion on which supply is authorised: (i) for a paper‑based prescription—the Medicare Australia/DVA copy ; or (ii) for an electronic prescription—the electronic prescription and the repeat authorisation; (ac) in the case of supply upon a prescription bearing instructions to supply the Pharmaceutical benefit more than once, if it is supplied other than on the first or last occasion on which supply is authorised: (i) for a paper-based prescription—the repeat authorisation for the most recent previous supply; or (ii) for an electronic prescription—the electronic prescription and the repeat authorisation for the most recent previous supply;

(b) in the case of supply upon a prescription bearing instructions to supply the Pharmaceutical benefit more than once, if it is supplied on the last occasion on which supply is authorised:
(i) for a paper‑based prescription—the pharmacist/patient copy and the repeat authorisation for the most recent previous supply; or
(ii) for an electronic prescription—the electronic prescription and the repeat authorisation for the most recent previous supply;

(3) In this section:

dangerous drug means a drug or medicinal preparation in respect of which the law of the State or Territory in which the prescription is written provides that a pharmacist who dispenses that drug or medicinal preparation, or who dispenses it on the last of a number of occasions of supply indicated in a prescription for its supply, must take possession of the prescription and cancel it or deliver it to the authority administering that law.