P-10, r. 7 - Code of ethics of pharmacists

Section 61 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

61. In the practice of pharmacy within a partnership or joint-stock company of pharmacists, no pharmacist may

(1)  practise within a partnership or joint-stock company of pharmacists in which a person other than a pharmacist has an interest, or have an interest in such a partnership or joint-stock company;

(2)  omit, while the pharmacist is a partner, director, officer or shareholder of a partnership or joint-stock company of pharmacists, to take reasonable measures to put an end to, or prevent the repeated performance of, an act derogatory to the dignity of the profession performed by another person within the partnership or joint-stock company and which was brought to his or her attention more than 30 days earlier;

(3)  continue to carry on activities within a partnership or joint-stock company of pharmacists for more than 10 days after the effective date of the striking off or revocation of the permit of the representative within the meaning of the Regulation respecting the practice of pharmacy within a partnership or a joint-stock company (chapter P-10, r. 16), or of a partner, shareholder, director, an officer or employee, if the person concerned is still performing his or her duties in the partnership or joint-stock company or still holds, directly or indirectly, rights as a shareholder or partner;

(4)  practise within a partnership or joint-stock company that holds itself out to be or implies that it is a partnership or joint-stock company of pharmacists if one of the requirements in the Professional Code (chapter C-26) or the Regulation respecting the practice of pharmacy in a partnership or joint-stock company is not met in that respect; or

(5)  enter into an agreement or allow an agreement to be entered into within a partnership or joint-stock company of pharmacists if the agreement operates to impair compliance by pharmacists with the Pharmacy Act (chapter P-10) or the Professional Code and the regulations made under the Act or that Code.

O.C. 467-2008, s. 61.