New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT 2006 - SECT 32

32 Notification of convictions, criminal findings and charges

(1) A registered pharmacist must notify the Board in writing within 7 days after:

(a) the pharmacist is convicted of an offence or made the subject of a sex or violence, or drug related, criminal finding for an offence, in this State or elsewhere, giving details of the conviction or criminal finding and any penalty imposed for the offence, or

(b) the pharmacist is, in this State or elsewhere, convicted of, or made the subject of a criminal finding for, an offence that arises out of or is connected with the supply of pharmaceutical benefits or special pharmaceutical products (within the meaning of the National Health Act 1953 of the Commonwealth) under Part VII of that Act, giving details of the conviction or criminal finding and any penalty imposed for the offence, or

(c) criminal proceedings are commenced against the pharmacist, in this State or elsewhere, in respect of a sex or violence, or drug related, offence alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of pharmacy, or

(d) criminal proceedings are commenced against the pharmacist, in this State or elsewhere, in respect of a sex or violence offence alleged to have been committed against a minor or to involve child pornography (whether or not alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of pharmacy).

(2) The regulations may provide that subsection (1) (a) does not apply in respect of particular offences.