Gardiner v Pharmaceutical Society Disciplinary Committee - [1986] 1 NZLR 551

Medicine, pharmacy and related professions — Pharmacists — Disciplinary proceedings — Charge of professional misconduct for permitting pharmacy to be kept and managed while not under control of a pharmacist contrary to s 41 of the Pharmacy Act — A breach of s 41 was a summary offence — Whether the Pharmaceutical Society's Council and its Disciplinary Committee had jurisdiction to consider the disciplinary charge when there had been no prosecution under the Act — Pharmacy Act 1970, ss 30, 41 and 53.