18. Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the purchase, preparation, sale or supplying of medications by a person empowered to do so by law.
Nor shall anything prohibit the purchase and preparation of medications by Santé Québec, or the sale or supplying by it of medications to persons admitted to or registered at a public institution within the meaning of the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system (chapter G-1.021), provided that there is a pharmacist or physician practising in any centre operated by such an institution. Nor shall anything prohibit the purchase and preparation of medications by an institution other than a public institution referred to in the second paragraph, or the sale or supplying by such an institution of medications to persons admitted to or registered at the institution, provided that there is a pharmacist or physician practising in any centre operated by the institution.
The sale and supplying of medications by Santé Québec to persons other than those admitted to or registered at a public institution referred to in the second paragraph and the sale and supplying of medications by an institution referred to in the third paragraph to persons other than those admitted to or registered at that institution shall be allowed in the cases and on the conditions provided by regulation made in accordance with paragraph b of section 37.
Nor shall anything prohibit the preparation of medications by a manufacturer of medications or the sale at wholesale by such manufacturer to a wholesaler in medications, or the sale at wholesale by such manufacturer or wholesaler to a person empowered to sell or supply medications under this Act or another Act.
Nor shall anything prohibit the sale of a medication mentioned in a regulation made under section 37.1, where the sale is made in conformity with such regulation.
1973, c. 51, s. 18; 1990, c. 75, s. 5; 1992, c. 21, s. 199, s. 375; 1994, c. 40, s. 431; 2009, c. 35, s. 66; 2023, c. 342023, c. 34, s. 11621.