Act No. 13, 2003
MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES
CONTROL ACT, 2003
(b)
may issue a licence, on application by a pharmacist, authorising him or her
to manufacture or pack and sell a medicine or scheduled substance subject
to such conditions as the Council may determine;
(c)
may issue a licence, on application by a person who may sell a medicine or
a scheduled substance under this Act, authorising that person to import or
export that medicine or scheduled substance subject to such conditions as
the Council may determine.
(6) The Registrar must register, in the prescribed form, every person issued
with a licence or permit under this section.
(7) If a medical practitioner, a dentist, a pharmacist, a veterinarian or other
person granted a licence under this section ceases to carry out the functions authorised in
that licence, he or she must notify the Registrar accordingly in writing and return the
licence in question to the Registrar, and the Registrar must remove the name of that
person from the relevant register.
(8) A licence referred to in this section must be issued on payment of the fee
prescribed for the particular licence.
(9) A licence or permit issued under this section may be revoked, if a condition
on which it was issued is not met.
Publication of information relating to medicines, scheduled substances or any other
things subject to this Act
32. (1) Notwithstanding section 42, the Council may disclose any information
in respect of the prescribing, dispensing, administration and use of a medicine or a
scheduled substance, or any other thing, which is subject to this Act, if the Council
considers it expedient and in the public interest to disclose that information.
(2) The Council may publish the information referred to in subsection (1) or
release it to the public in a manner that the Council considers fit.
Disposal of undesirable medicines
33. (1) If the Council is of the opinion that it is not in the public interest that
a medicine or a scheduled substance be made available to the public, the Council may
(a)
by notice in writing handed or transmitted by registered post to any person
direct that person; or
(b)
by notice in the Gazette direct any person, to
(i)
return any quantity of that medicine or scheduled substance in his or
her possession to the manufacturer, supplier or importer of that
medicine or scheduled substance; or
(ii)
deliver or send that medicine to any other person designated by the
Council.
(2)
The Council may, by notice in writing, direct any
(a)
manufacturer, supplier or importer of a medicine or a scheduled substance
referred to in subsection (1), who has any quantity of that medicine or
scheduled substance, including any quantity returned to him or her in
pursuance of a direction made under subsection (1); or