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Medicines Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions
Medicines Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions
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Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent and connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body or of any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, is also guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
In relation to a body corporate carrying on a retail pharmacy business, subsection (1) shall have effect in relation to any person who (not being such an officer of the body corporate as is mentioned therein) —
retail pharmacy business
“retail pharmacy business” means a business (not being a professional practice carried out by a practitioner) which consists of or includes the retail sale of medicinal products other than medicinal products on a general sale list;
is the superintendent; or
at any premises where the business is carried on, is the pharmacist who acts under the directions of the superintendent, as if he were also such an officer of that body corporate.
pharmacist
“pharmacist” means a person registered under the Pharmacists Registration Order, 2001;
retail pharmacy business
“retail pharmacy business” means a business (not being a professional practice carried out by a practitioner) which consists of or includes the retail sale of medicinal products other than medicinal products on a general sale list;