New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PHARMACY ACT 1964 - SECT 17A

17A Provisional registration

(1) Where:

(a) a person has applied to be registered,

(b) the person would, if the Board were satisfied:

(i) that the person has had the requisite service and experience referred to in section 13, or the requisite experience referred to in section 14, as the case may require, and

(ii) as to the matters referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 17,

be entitled to be registered, and

(c) the person’s application for registration has not been dealt with by the Board,

the president of the Board or, in the president’s absence from the City of Sydney, any other member of the Board authorised generally by the Board to grant certificates of provisional registration, may, if satisfied as to the matters referred to in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (b), and on payment of the prescribed fee, grant to that person a certificate of provisional registration in the prescribed form.

(2) Where, on an application made by any person for a certificate of provisional registration under this subsection, the Board, the president of the Board or, in the president’s absence from the City of Sydney, any other member of the Board authorised generally by the Board to grant certificates of provisional registration is satisfied:

(a) that that person is justly entitled to a prescribed qualification referred to in section 14 that is to be conferred on or granted to the person by a prescribed university, college, institute or other body, so referred to, that is in the Commonwealth of Australia,

(b) that the person will in due course have that prescribed qualification conferred on or granted to the person according to the practice of that prescribed university, college, institute or other body,

(c) that the person has had the requisite experience referred to in section 14, and

(d) as to the matters referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 17,

the Board or if the Board has not dealt with the person’s application under this subsection the president of the Board or other such member of the Board may, on payment of the fee fixed by the Board, grant to that person a certificate of provisional registration in the prescribed form.

(3) Where a person has obtained a certificate of provisional registration the person shall be deemed to be registered under this Act until:

(a) the date stated in the certificate, or

(b) such later date as may be fixed by the Board,

which date shall, in either case, be not later than three months after the granting of the certificate.

(4) The Board may, at any time before the date so stated or fixed, for such cause as to it seems proper, cancel a certificate of provisional registration without prejudice to the application of the holder of the certificate to be registered.

(5) Upon the cancellation of a certificate of provisional registration, the holder of the certificate shall thereupon cease to be deemed to be registered.

(6) If a person to whom a certificate of provisional registration has been granted becomes registered before the date stated or fixed pursuant to subsection (3) in respect of that certificate, the person’s registration shall, unless otherwise decided by the Board, date from the granting of the certificate.