Dispensariu (Lleeuing) (Amend_ent) ReauJatlons, 1986

L.N. 3:; of 1986

MEDICAL AND KINDRED PROFESSIONS ORDINANCE

(CAP. 51)

Dispensariu (Lleeuing) (Amend_ent) ReauJatlons, 1986

IN EXERCISE of the powen eonfened by seetion 35A of the

Med ical and Kindud ProtessioOJ Ordiance. the M inister 01 Health

and Environment, af&er oonsultation wilh the Council of Health, has

mad ... the followin8 regulations;-

These regulations may be cited as the Dispensaries (Uceosing)

(Amendment) Regulations. 1986 and shaH be read a nd OOD5trued as

ooe with the D ispensaries (Lkensing) Regulations. 1984, berei!l.lfter LN. 11 d. 1914

referred to as "tbe principal regulations".

(2) of regulation 3 of the prineipai

following new paragraphs

regulations

" (3) TI!e Superintmdcnt may in issuing any licence lay down

allJODpt tbe rondi tiom the boon during which the dispelLSllt)' allall

be kept open.

"(4) If a dispensary iI kept clOlOd for a period of six months.

or for any aggregate period 01 six months in a calendar year. the

licence thereof shall be oonsidered u being DO longer valid and

on the completion of any such period the Superintendent shall

give fl()(ice accordingly to the peTlOn to whom the licence has been

issued. " . .

R egulation S of the principa l regulations allal! be al1\Cnded as

(a) paragraphs (2) 10 (S) tbertof, shall be renumbered priDcipol

respectively paragraphs (4) to (7);

Cb) for panlgraph (I) thereof lhere shall he IUbstituted the

following paragraphs

"( I) In every lown or viUage the number of dispensaries

shall DOt exc:eed the ralio of one dispensary for every three

Ihoosa oo pennanent inhabitants

Provided tha t the number of dispensaries which may be

licensed in any lawn or village shall fI()( be less than two.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisiom of the jlIectding parag-

ra ph a li<:en<:o for a di spensary may be granted ;n the ease of

I oewly developed area wi th more than one thousand inhabi-

tants if there is DO disperuary within five hundred metlU, ealen.

lated as the shortest walki ng distance. of the nearest pan of

RlCb area.

0) Where in a town or village ~ oocur ehlngell in the

population durilll Iny period of the year resulting in a

substantial increue of the population durilll such period, that

periodic increase shall be liken into oonsideration in ealeulal ing

the number of inhabitants (or the purposet of the ratio

mentioned in paragraph (1) of this regulation. aDd subject

I? the ~ultant number of dispensaries which may be

hcensed ID that town or viJIage additional licences may be

iUlU:d. and the foUowina roles shaD apply

(a) the actual licensees shall not later than the 311t

day f1 December 1986. infonn. by DOtice in writing, the

Superintemknt that they will keep the di5peosaty open aDd

operating all the year round. or otherwise for the period

of increase in population 1.1 aforementioned;

(b) all licences granted or renewal for the period

of increase in population as aforementioned shall be

eligible foc renewal and the provisions of paragrapb (4)

01 regulation 3 shall not apply to such licences;

(c) notwitmtanding the foregoing. at no time shall

the number of dispensaries licensed under these regulations

exceed the ratio of onc dispensary every three tboosand

inhahitants. ";

(c) in paragraph (4) III renumbered thereof. for the words

~su~isting and operating" and " paragraph (5) " there shall be

respectively substituted the words "subsisting or operating"

and "paragraph (7)";

(d) ) for paragraph (5) as renumbered thereof, there shall be

substituted the following

"(5) Where in any town or Village thc number 01

dispensaries exceeds that la id down in paragraph (I) of this

regulation. no transfer of a licence of any dispensary sball be

effected c:\ccp!. in the ease of a licensee who has died or has

attained si~ ty-one years of age and the transferee is the husband

or wife or a descendant in the direct line of thal liceTL'lCe

Provided thal the provisions of this paragraph shan DOl

be a har to lbe transfer of such licence where lhe dispensary.

other lhan such liceoce. WI.!I transferred 10 a person qu.a.JifJed

10 praetise as apothecary. by notarial deed , before the coming

inlo force cA th!.se regu)ations,. .. ; and

(c) in poIIragraph (6) as renumbered tbereof, for the number

"(2) " there shall be substiluted lhe number "(4)"; and al the end

of that paragroph there shall be added the following proviso

" Prov ided that lhe provisions of Ibis paragraph shall not

apply 10 a town or village where the number of dispensaries

which are operaling is below the number whieh may be

licensed in terms of paragraph (I) of lhis regu!alion ....

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