1Short titleThis regulation may be cited as the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Amendment Regulation (No. 3) 2024.2CommencementThis regulation commences on 1 October 2024.3Regulation amendedThis 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 are5Amendment of s 226 (Reporting lost or stolen medicine)Section 226(1)(c), ‘pseudoephedrine has’—omit, insert—pseudoephedrine or therapeutic nicotine have6Amendment of sch 2 (Categories of medicines)Schedule 2, part 3—insert—therapeutic nicotine7Amendment of sch 9 (Pharmaceutical professions)Schedule 9, section 2, table, item 3—omit, insert—3sell, other than on a prescription(a)an S2, S3 or S4 medicine, other than therapeutic nicotinethe medicine is sold at a pharmacy(b)therapeutic nicotinethe medicine is sold at a community pharmacy(c)a medicine that is mentioned as a pharmaceutical benefit in a Continued Dispensing Determinationthe medicine is sold in the circumstances mentioned in the Continued Dispensing Determination(d)a medicine mentioned in the extended practice authority called ‘Pharmacists’the medicine is sold under the extended practice authority8Amendment 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.