New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT 2006 - SECT 7

7 Registration necessary for certain representations

(1) A person who is not a registered pharmacist must not indicate that the person practises pharmacy or is qualified to practise pharmacy.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting the ways in which a person may be taken to have indicated that the person practises pharmacy or that the person is qualified to practise pharmacy, a person is taken to have so indicated if the person uses:

(a) the title of “chemist” or any other title or name, initials, word, symbol or description that (having regard to the circumstances in which it is used) indicates, or is capable of being understood to indicate, or is calculated to lead a person to infer, that the person is qualified to practise pharmacy or that the person practises pharmacy, or

(b) the title of “apothecary”, “compounding chemist”, “dispensing chemist”, “dispensing druggist”, “druggist”, “homoeopathic chemist”, “pharmaceutical chemist”, “pharmaceutist” or “pharmacist”.