The inspector pharmacist shall allow to enter any establishment or any place where he/she
presumes that activities related to the pharmaceutical art are carried out.
No one can escape or oppose on any account to the accomplishment of the inspector
pharmacist' mission.
The inspector pharmacist can, when necessary, take samples for analysis purposes.
Article: 87
The inspector pharmacists shall note, in reports deemed authentic, that there have been
infractions of this Law and the decrees stating measures for its enforcement until there
evidence that it's not the case.
There will be made as many copies as necessary, one of which shall be addressed to the
offender within seven days at the latest from the day the infraction has been noted.
Article: 88
If there is strong presumption that drugs and other pharmaceutical products found are soiled,
expired, counterfeited, adulterated or in non conformity with the provisions of this law or
the decrees stating measures for its enforcement, the inspector pharmacists, in agreement
with the interested persons, can if necessary proceed to immediately destroy those products
or remove them with the aim of destroying them, without prejudice to possible legal
proceedings.
If no consent of the interested person the drugs and other pharmaceutical products shall be
and the seals put on them.
The inspectors shall have samples taken for analysis in an adequately equipped laboratory.
Depending on the results of the analysis, either the seals shall be removed or the s
maintained before they are possibly destroyed.
Article: 89
In the interest of public health, the inspector pharmacist, with an ad hoc report whose copy
is given to the offender, can proceed to confiscate drugs and other pharmaceutical products
deemed to be in non conformity with the standards enacted by law.
He/she shall refer it to the Public Prosecutor within seven days from the day of the
operation. Article 90: The Minister responsible for Health determines the mode and
conditions of taking samples for analysis and of confiscation.
Title VII. PENAL PROVISIONS
Article: 91
Whoever engages in activities reserved to pharmacists without fulfilling the legal
requirements will be punished by imprisonnement of more than two months and less than
one year and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand Rwandan francs or with only one of those
penalty