You operate a pharmacy if you establish or carry on business in one. You also operate a pharmacy if you establish, own, or manage a hospital with a pharmacy. You operate a pharmacy if you manage or control a pharmacy that is not for profit.

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5A: Meaning of holding an interest in a pharmacy, or

"What it means to have a part in owning a pharmacy"

5C: Transitional, savings, and related provisions, or

"Rules to Help Change to the New Law"

5BMeaning of operating a pharmacy

For the purposes of this Act, a person operates a pharmacy if the person—
establishes, or carries on business in, a pharmacy; or
establishes, owns, or is responsible for the management or control of a hospital in which there is a pharmacy; or
establishes, or is responsible for the management or control of a pharmacy carried on, on a not for profit basis.

Notes

Section 5B: inserted, on 18 September 2004, by section 4 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 50).