Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988:reg:61
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 61
Character Range: 113159–114987

61  Keeping documents—medication chart prescriptions

Supplying a pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription if the medication chart is not an electronic medication chart
 (1) An approved supplier commits an offence if:
 (a) the approved supplier supplies a pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription; and
 (aa) the medication chart is not an electronic medication chart; and
 (b) the approved supplier does not keep the medication chart, or the copy of the medication chart, on which the approved supplier wrote the details referred to in paragraph 45(2)(c) in relation to the prescription, for at least 2 years from the date the pharmaceutical benefit was supplied by the approved supplier.
Penalty: 0.2 penalty units.

Supplying a pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription if the medication chart is an electronic medication chart
 (1A) An approved supplier commits an offence if:
 (a) the approved supplier supplies a pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription; and
 (b) the medication chart is an electronic medication chart; and
 (c) the approved supplier does not keep the electronic prescription written in the electronic medication chart, or a copy of the electronic prescription, on which the approved supplier wrote the details referred to in paragraph 45(2)(d) in relation to the electronic prescription, for at least 2 years from the date the pharmaceutical benefit was supplied by the approved supplier.
Penalty: 0.2 penalty units.

Strict liability offences
 (2) An offence against subsection (1) or (1A) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: The medication chart, or copy of the medication chart, may be kept in an electronic form (see subsection 12(2) of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999).