Medicines Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Pharmacies
41. Restriction on use of titles, descriptions and emblems
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No person shall —
in connection with the retail sale of any medicinal products or the supply of any medicinal products in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, use the description “pharmacy” or “dispensary” except in respect of a registered pharmacy or in respect of the pharmaceutical department of a hospital under the supervision of a pharmacist;
take or use the titles of chemist and druggist, druggist, dispensing chemist, dispensing druggist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmaceutist and pharmacist, in connection with the retail sale of any medicinal products or the supply of any medicinal products in circumstances corresponding to retail sale at any premises unless those premises are a registered pharmacy or the pharmaceutical department of a hospital under the supervision of a pharmacist;
in connection with any premises used for the purpose of the retail sale of medicinal products, use any title, description or emblem likely to suggest —
that he possesses any qualification which he does not possess with respect to the sale, manufacture or assembly of medicinal products; or
that any person employed in those premises possesses any qualification which that person does not possess.
Subsection (1) does not apply to the use of the word “dispensary”
by a medical practitioner or veterinary surgeon in connection with the practice of his profession.
medical practitioner
“medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act;
Terms defined in s 2
hospital
Defined · s 2“hospital” includes any institution for the reception and treatment of the sick and designated as a hospital by the Minister for the purposes of this Act;
medical practitioner
Defined · s 2“medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act;
pharmacist
Defined · s 2“pharmacist” means a person registered under the Pharmacists Registration Order, 2001;
registered pharmacy
Defined · s 2“registered pharmacy” means premises entered in the register under section 39(1);
retail sale
Defined · s 2“retail sale”, in relation to a medicinal product, has the meaning ascribed to it by subsection (2)(b);
veterinary surgeon
Defined · s 2“veterinary surgeon” means a person registered under the Veterinary Surgeons Order, 2005;
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Containers, Packages and Identification of Medicinal Products
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Promotion of Sales of Medicinal Products and Medical Advertisements
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