This regulation may be cited as the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Amendment Regulation (No. 3) 2024.
This regulation commences on 1 October 2024.
This regulation amends the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021.
4Amendment of s 199 (Preventing unauthorised access to medicines)
Section 199(2), ‘pseudoephedrine is’—
omit, insert—pseudoephedrine or therapeutic nicotine are
5Amendment of s 226 (Reporting lost or stolen medicine)
Section 226(1)(c), ‘pseudoephedrine has’—
omit, insert—pseudoephedrine or therapeutic nicotine have
6Amendment of sch 2 (Categories of medicines)
Schedule 2, part 3—
insert—therapeutic nicotine
7Amendment of sch 9 (Pharmaceutical professions)
Schedule 9, section 2, table, item 3—
omit, insert—
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sell, other than on a prescription
the medicine is sold at a pharmacy
the medicine is sold at a community pharmacy
the medicine is sold in the circumstances mentioned in the Continued Dispensing Determination
the medicine is sold under the extended practice authority
8Amendment of sch 22 (Dictionary)
(1)Schedule 22, definition community pharmacy—
omit.(2)Schedule 22—
insert—community pharmacy means—(a)a place at which a person owns and carries on a pharmacy business under the Pharmacy Business Ownership Act 2001; or(b)if the Pharmacy Business Ownership Act 2024, section 19 has commenced—(i)the licensed premises for a licensed pharmacy business under that Act; or(ii)a place at which a person may continue to own and carry on a pharmacy business, without holding a pharmacy business licence, under that Act.therapeutic nicotine means nicotine in a therapeutic vaping good.therapeutic vaping good see the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 (Cwlth), section 2.