(3) The council may at any time by notice in writing withdraw any authority granted in terms of
subsection (1) if effect is not given to any determination made in terms of subsection (2).
22. Director-General to cause certain information to be furnished.—(1) The Director-General shall
after consultation with the council, cause, in such manner as the Director-General considers most
suitable—
(a)
as soon as practicable after any medicine, other than a veterinary medicine, has been
registered, medical practitioners, dentists, pharmacists and the person who applied for the registration of
such medicine to be informed—
(i)
of the name and number under which such medicine is registered and the conditions,
if any, subject to which such medicine is registered;
(ii)
of the therapeutic efficacy and effect of such medicine;
(iii)
of the purpose for which, the circumstances under which and the manner in which
such medicine should be used; and
(iv)
regarding any other matter concerning such medicine which, in the opinion of the
council, may be of value to them;
(b)
as soon as practicable after the registration of any medicine, other than a veterinary
medicine, has been cancelled in terms of section 16, medical practitioners, dentists, pharmacists and
the holder of the certificate of registration issued in respect of such medicine to be informed of the
cancellation of such registration.
[Para (b) substituted by s. 6 of Act No. 20 of 1981.]
Wording of Sections
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis in respect of any veterinary medicine,
and for the purposes of such application the reference in that subsection to medical practitioners and
dentists shall be deemed to be a reference to veterinarians.
[S. 22 substituted by s. 20 of Act No. 65 of 1974 and by s. 8 of Act No. 17 of 1979.]
Wording of Sections
22A. Control of medicines and Scheduled substances.—(1) Subject to this section, no person
shall sell, have in his or her possession or manufacture any medicine or Scheduled substance, except in
accordance with the prescribed conditions.
(2) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the council, prescribe the Scheduled substances
referred to in this section.
(3) Any Schedule 0 substance may be sold in an open shop.
(4) Any Schedule 1 substance shall not be sold—
(a)
by any person other than—
(i)
a pharmacist, or a pharmacist intern or pharmacist’s assistant acting under the
personal supervision of a pharmacist;
(ii)
a manufacturer of or wholesale dealer in pharmaceutical products for sale to any
person who may lawfully possess such substance;
(iii)
a medical practitioner or dentist, who may—
(aa)
prescribe such substance;
(bb)
compound and dispense such substance only if he or she is the holder of a licence as
contemplated in section 22C (1) (a);
(iv)
a veterinarian who may prescribe, compound or dispense such substance;
(v)
a practitioner, nurse or a person registered under the Health Professions Act, 1974,
other than a medical practitioner or dentist, who may—
(aa)
prescribe only the Scheduled substances identified in the Schedule for that purpose;
(bb)
compound and dispense the Scheduled substances referred to in item (aa) only if he
or she is the holder of a licence contemplated in section 22C (1) (a);
(b)
to any person apparently under the age of 14 years except upon a prescription issued
by an authorised prescriber and dispensed by a pharmacist, pharmacist intern or pharmacist’s assistant
or by a veterinarian or a person who is the holder of a licence as contemplated in section 22C (1) (a), or
on a written order disclosing the purpose for which such substance is to be used and bears a signature
known to the seller as the signature of a person known to such seller and who is apparently over the
age of 14 years;
(c)
unless the seller, other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer in pharmaceutical
products, enters in a prescription book required to be kept in the prescribed manner, the prescribed
particulars of such sale.
(5) Any Schedule 2, Schedule 3, Schedule 4, Schedule 5 or Schedule 6 substance shall not be sold by
any person other than—
(a)
a pharmacist, pharmacist intern or a pharmacist’s assistant acting under the personal
supervision of a pharmacist, who may sell only Schedule 2 substances without a prescription;
(b)
a pharmacist or a pharmacist intern or pharmacist’s assistant acting under the
personal supervision of a pharmacist, upon a written prescription issued by an authorised prescriber or
on the verbal instructions of an authorised prescriber who is known to such pharmacist;