Pharmacy Licence (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 81 of 2008

MEDICINES ACT

(CAP. 458)

Pharmacy Licence (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 66 of the Medicines

Act, the Minister of Health, the Elderly and Community Care has made

the following regulations>

The title of these regulations is the Pharmacy Licence Title.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Pharmacy Licence Regulations, 2007 hereinafter referred L.N. 279 of 2007.

to as “the principal regulations”.

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends

regulation 6

follows>

of the principal

regulations.

(a) for the words “from the current premises<” in paragraph

(b) thereof, there shall be substituted the words “from the current

premises>

Provided that in the case of an application for a pharmacy

licence submitted before the application for relocation of an

existing pharmacy, and where, as a result of such relocation, the

distance between the proposed new pharmacy and the relocated

pharmacy is less than 300 metres, then the requisite of 300 metres

shall not apply in determining the validity or otherwise of the

pending application.”< and

(b) paragraph (c) thereof shall be deleted.

Regulation 10 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 10

as follows>

of the principal

regulations.

(a) for sub-regulation (3) thereof, there shall be substituted

the following>

“(3) It shall not be lawful for a licencee to carry out or

cause to permit, or suffer to be carried out on the premises

any activity which is not strictly that of storage, preparation,

dispensing, sale or supply of medicinal products or that of

storage or sale of other articles and all other activities related

to pharmaceutical and other healthcare services as allowed

by these regulations.”< and

(b) for sub-regulation (4) thereof, there shall be substituted

the following>

“(4) Without prejudice to sub-regulation (2) of this

regulation, there shall be no communication between the

premises of a pharmacy and any other premises which is used

for any commercial activity whatsoever, except in accordance

with sub-regulation (3) of this regulation.”.

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