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Medicines Act 1981

Miscellaneous provisions

114: Transitional

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"Rules for when the Medicines Act 1981 first started"

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When the new Medicines Act 1981 started, you were still allowed to do some things you were doing before. If you had a licence to sell certain medicines before the new Act started, you could keep selling them until your licence would have normally expired. You could sell prescription medicines, restricted medicines, and pharmacy-only medicines by wholesale. If you had a licence to pack certain medicines before the new Act started, you could keep packing them until your licence would have normally expired. You could pack and label prescription medicines, restricted medicines, and pharmacy-only medicines, and sell them by wholesale. But if your licence only allowed you to sell or pack certain substances, you could not sell or pack other substances. Some old rules were repealed, but they still applied to certain situations. If you had already applied for consent under the old rules, those rules still applied to your application. If you had given notice under the old rules within 90 days before the new Act started, those rules still applied to your notice.

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Part 8Miscellaneous provisions

114Transitional

  1. Without limiting section 20 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924, but subject to subsection (2),—

  2. every person who, immediately before the commencement of Part 2, held a wholesaler's restricted drugs licence under the Restricted Drugs Act 1960 that authorised him to sell prescription drugs by wholesale shall be deemed to be licensed to sell prescription medicines, restricted medicines, and pharmacy-only medicines by wholesale until the date on which his licence would have expired if that Act had not been repealed:
    1. every person who, immediately before the commencement of Part 2, held a packer's restricted drugs licence under the Restricted Drugs Act 1960 that authorised him to pack prescription drugs shall be deemed to be licensed to pack and label prescription medicines, restricted medicines, and pharmacy-only medicines, and to sell such medicines by wholesale, until the date on which his licence would have expired if that Act had not been repealed.

      1. Subject to section 34, if a licence referred to in subsection (1) is limited with respect to the substances that may be sold or packed, as the case may require, the authority conferred by that subsection shall not extend to the selling or packing of any other substance or article.

      2. Notwithstanding the repeal by section 115 of this Act of sections 12, 13, and 14 of the Food and Drug Act 1969, those sections shall continue to apply—

      3. in respect of any application for the consent of the Minister under the said section 12 that is awaiting determination at the commencement of Part 2:
        1. in respect of any notice that was deposited with the Director-General under the said section 14 within 90 days before the commencement of Part 2.