First

Session, 50th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2021

BILL 27

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PHARMACY ACT, 2012

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE JOHN

HAGGIE

Minister of Health

and Community Services

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Pharmacy Act, 2012 to provide that the

Act does not extend to or interfere with the

dispensing of necessary drugs or medicines by licensed practical nurses in the

course of duty when practising with the approval and under the general

supervision of a regional health authority.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 2012

Analysis

S.3 Amdt.

Non-application of Act

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2012 cP-12.2

as amended

1. Subsection 3(2) of the Pharmacy Act, 2012 is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) This Act shall not extend to or interfere with

the dispensing of necessary drugs or medicines by registered nurses or licensed

practical nurses in the course of duty when practising with the approval and

under the general supervision of a regional health authority.

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