Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:103:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 103 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 532257–533553

relate to a prescription communicated to an approved pharmacist, communicate to that pharmacist any information connected with the status of the person to whom the prescription relates that is, to his or her knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 50 penalty units, or both.
 (5) A person shall not:
 (b) obtain a pharmaceutical benefit to which the person is not entitled;
 (ba) obtain the issue of a concession card or entitlement card to which the person is not entitled;
 (d) not being a PBS prescriber, write a prescription for the purposes of this Part;
 (f) supply as a pharmaceutical benefit a substance that does not conform to the standards of composition or purity prescribed in the regulations or that has as an ingredient a substance that does not conform to those standards;
 (g) by means of impersonation, a false or misleading statement or a fraudulent device, obtain, or by any of those means aid or abet another person to obtain, a pharmaceutical benefit or a payment in respect of the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit; or
 (h) contravene or fail to comply with a provision of this Part which is applicable to the person.
Penalty for contravention of this subsection: Imprisonment for 2 years or 50 penalty units, or both.