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Pharmac

67Pharmac

  1. There continues be a Pharmaceutical Management Agency (Pharmac).

  2. Pharmac is the same organisation that, immediately before the commencement of this section, was known as Pharmac.

  3. Pharmac is a Crown entity for the purposes of section 7 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

  4. The Crown Entities Act 2004 applies to Pharmac except to the extent that this Act expressly provides otherwise.