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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
COVID-19 Emergency Response (Further Measures)
(No 2) Amendment Bill 2020
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
COVID-19
Emergency Response Act 2020
.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of COVID-19 Emergency
Response Act 2020
3Amendment of Schedule 2—Temporary
modification of particular State laws
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the COVID-19 Emergency Response (Further
Measures) (No 2) Amendment Act 2020.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of COVID-19 Emergency Response
Act 2020
3—Amendment
of Schedule 2—Temporary modification of particular State
laws
(1) Schedule 2—after Part A1 insert:
Part A2—Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
A2—Modification of Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
Section 20AA of the
Criminal
Law Consolidation Act 1935
applies with the following modifications:
(a) Section 20AA(9)—after the definition of human biological
material insert:
pharmacy has the same meaning as in Part 4 of the
Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia)
Act 2010
;
pharmacy services has the same meaning as in Part 4 of the
Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia)
Act 2010
;
(b) Section 20AA(9), definition of prescribed emergency
worker, (e)—after "hospital" insert:
, or at any other place where medical treatment is provided or medical
testing undertaken (however described, but including, without limiting this
paragraph, a general practice, medical centre or place at which people are
screened for COVID-19 or other diseases)
(c) Section 20AA(9), definition of prescribed emergency
worker—after paragraph (g) insert:
(ga) a person (whether a pharmacist, pharmacy assistant or otherwise)
performing duties in a pharmacy; or
(gb) a person providing pharmacy services at a place other than a
pharmacy, or a person assisting in the provision of such services; or
(2) Schedule 2—after Part 2 insert:
Part 2AA—Health Practitioner Regulation National
Law (South Australia) Act 2010
2AA—Modification of Health Practitioner
Regulation National Law (South Australia) Act 2010
Part 4 of the
Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia)
Act 2010
applies with the following modifications:
(a) Section 43—after subsection (1) insert:
(1a) Section 43(1) will be taken not to apply to a person who carries
on a pharmacy business in circumstances where—
(a) the person is authorised by the Authority to operate the pharmacy
business without a pharmacist being physically in attendance at the pharmacy;
and
(b) a pharmacist is, by means of internet or other electronic
communication (other than communication of a kind specified by the Authority),
in attendance during any period the pharmacy business is operating and is
available for consultation by members of the public.
(b) Section 46—after subsection (5) insert:
(6) A condition of the registration of a pharmacy that is inconsistent
with section 43(1a) will, to the extent of the inconsistency, be taken to
be modified to give effect to the modification made by that subclause.