Restriction on number of pharmacies
42 Restriction on number of pharmacies
Friendly
Society Medical Association Limited must not provide pharmacy services at more than 40 pharmacies in this State.
Maximum penalty: $50 000.
A person other than a friendly society must not provide pharmacy services at more than 6 pharmacies in this State.
Maximum penalty: $50 000.
A friendly society other than Friendly Society Medical Association
Limited must not commence to provide pharmacy services at a pharmacy if friendly societies other than Friendly Society Medical
Association Limited already provide pharmacy services at
9 pharmacies in this State or, if another number of pharmacies is prescribed, that number (as recorded on the register of pharmacies).
Maximum penalty: $50 000.
In determining the number of pharmacies at which a natural person provides pharmacy services, pharmacies at which the person provides pharmacy services as a natural person and pharmacies at which any body corporate or trust in which the person occupies a position of authority provides pharmacy services must be taken into account.
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