New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT 2006 - SECT 21

21 Indicating a corporation or firm to be a pharmacy business

(1) A corporation must not indicate that it is a pharmacy business unless it is:

(a) a pharmacists’ body corporate that carries on a pharmacy business, or

(b) a friendly or other society that has a pecuniary interest in a pharmacy business permitted by section 26 and that carries on that business, or

(c) a body corporate that carries on a pharmacy business under section 27.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) A person must not indicate that a corporation is a pharmacy business if the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that any such indication by the corporation itself would be a contravention of subsection (1).

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) A partner or member of a firm must not indicate that the firm is a pharmacy business unless the firm is a pharmacists’ partnership that carries on a pharmacy business.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(4) This section does not apply to a person who has a pecuniary interest in a pharmacy business as referred to in section 25 (5), but only in relation to indications made in the course of, and in relation to, carrying on that business.