If you have a licence to operate a pharmacy, you must not ask any pharmacist working at the pharmacy to do something that goes against the professional or ethical standards of pharmacy practice. You need to make sure pharmacists follow these standards. This is a condition of having a licence to operate a pharmacy.

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55B: Licensing authority may require further information, or

"The licensing authority can ask for more information when you apply to run a pharmacy."

55D: Restriction on companies operating pharmacies, or

"Rules for companies that want to own a pharmacy in New Zealand"

Part 3Provisions relating to licences

55CMandatory condition of licence to operate pharmacy

It is a condition of every licence to operate a pharmacy that the holder of the licence must not request or require any pharmacist who is employed or engaged in duties at a pharmacy to act in a way that is inconsistent with the applicable professional or ethical standards of pharmacy practice.

Notes

Section 55C: inserted, on 18 September 2004, by section 17 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 50).