Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 30EL

  (1)   If:

  (a)   an instrument is in force under subsection   30EK(1); and

  (b)   under a law of a State or Territory, a pharmacist is authorised to dispense medicine (the scarce medicine ) covered by paragraph   30EK(1)(a) to a person;

then, despite any law of a State or Territory, the pharmacist may dispense medicine covered by paragraph   30EK(1)(b) to that person in substitution for the scarce medicine, provided that the substitution is in the circumstances specified in the instrument under subsection   30EK(1).

  (2)   For the purposes of this section, a pharmacist is a person registered as a pharmacist under a law of a State or Territory providing for the registration of pharmacists.