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Medicines Act 1981

Dealings with medicines and medical devices - Exemptions

33: Exemptions in respect of procuring and exporting medicines

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"When you can get or send medicines without breaking the law"

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You can get a medicine if the person you get it from is allowed to sell or give it to you. This is allowed under the Medicines Act 1981, even if other parts of the Act, like sections 17 to 24, say something different. You can also export a medicine for sale if it can be sold by a pharmacist in New Zealand at the time you export it.

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Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices
Exemptions

33Exemptions in respect of procuring and exporting medicines

  1. Notwithstanding sections 17 to 24 or anything in any licence, but subject to the other provisions of this Act and to any regulations made under this Act,—

  2. any person may procure a medicine if the person from whom he procures that medicine is authorised by or under this Act to sell or supply the medicine to him:
    1. any person may export, in the course or for the purpose of sale, any medicine that, at the time when it is exported, might lawfully be sold by a pharmacist to a person in New Zealand, whether pursuant to a prescription or otherwise.