Pharmacy Licence (Transfer) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 463 of 2014

MEDICINES ACT

(CAP. 458)

Pharmacy Licence (Transfer) Regulations, 2014

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 66 and 106 of

the Medicines Act, the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, after

consultation with the Licensing Authority, and in conformity with the

provisions of article 66 of the Medicines Act, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Pharmacy Licence Citation.

(Transfer) Regulations, 2014.

For the purpose of these regulations -

Interpretation.

"the Act" means the Medicines Act;

"Licensing Authority" means the Superintendent of Public

Health in terms of article 3(1) of the Act;

"locality" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it

under the Pharmacy Licence Regulations;

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"transfer of pharmacy licence" means the relocation of

pharmacy premises from one place within a locality to another place

within the same locality and which premises shall be named as the

licensed premises from where such pharmacy may operate.

Any person who proves to the satisfaction of the Licensing Application to

Authority that a request for the transfer of a pharmacy licence to his transfer

pharmacy

or her premises was made and refused after the 6th July 1984 and licence.

before the 5th October 2007 and that such licence has been

automatically revoked in such a manner and under such conditions

under which the transfer would have been allowed had the Pharmacy

Licensing Regulations as in force on the 1st July 2014 been in force at

the time when the transfer was requested, shall be entitled to apply for

the grant of a licence to the Licensing Authority within sixty days

from the date of coming into force of these regulations.

(1)

After receiving an application made in terms of Consideration of

regulation 3, the Licensing Authority may, after granting the application

grant of licence.

applicant the right to make representations on such matters as it may

seek to clarify, and after being satisfied that the said person fulfils the

requirements of these regulations, proceed to approve such request

for the grant of a pharmacy licence as from the date of the said

approval and under such terms, conditions and limitations as it deems

appropriate in the exercise of the powers conferred under article 71 of

the Act.

(2) The Licensing Authority shall be entitled to authorise the

issue of a pharmacy licence under these regulations notwithstanding

that the licence which the applicant refers to has lapsed or had been

cancelled for any reason other than as a result of the violation of any

law.

(3) The issue of a pharmacy licence under these regulations

may be made notwithstanding the provisions of regulations 4 and 6 of

the Pharmacy License Regulations.

(4) The issue of a pharmacy licence under these regulations

may be made subject to a condition that any claim of whatever nature

arising out of or related to the original application for transfer or any

claimed right to operate a pharmacy from any premises be withdrawn

and renounced by the applicant unconditionally.

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