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Second 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Special Measures Act, 2006

5. Suspension of prohibition on sale of unregistered medicines, registration of and community service for certain health care providers

 

(1)
(a) Notwithstanding any law referred to in paragraph (c) but subject to section 3, any member of an accredited foreign medical contingent may—
(i) possess, compound, dispense, import and export permitted medicines and Scheduled substances; and
(ii) import and export permitted medical devices.
(b) The possession, compounding, dispensing, import and export of permitted medicines and Scheduled substances and the import and export of such permitted medical devices contemplated in paragraph (a) may be undertaken solely for the purposes of rendering such health services as may be required by members of the team in respect of which the foreign medical contingent is accredited to render health services.
(c) The laws contemplated in paragraph (a) are—
(i) section 14 of the Medicines and Related Substances Act, 1965 (Act No. 101 of 1963, in so far as it pertains to the prohibition on the sale of medicines which are subject to registration and are not registered;
(ii) section 19 of the Medicines and Related Substances Act, 1965 (Act No. 101 of 1965), in so far as it pertains to the prohibition on the sale of medicines which do not comply with requirements prescribed in terms of that Act;
(iii) section 22A of the Medicines and Related Substances Act, 1965 (Act No. 101 of 1965). in so far as it pertains to the prohibition on the sale, possession, manufacture, import and export of any medicine or Scheduled substance; and
(iv) section 22C of the Medicines and Related Substances Act 1965 (Act No. 101 of 1965), in so far as it pertains to the prohibition on the compounding, dispensing, import and export of medicines and the import and export of medical devices without a licence.

 

(2)
(a) Notwithstanding any law referred to in paragraph (b), any member of an accredited foreign medical contingent may render any health service to a member of the team in respect of which the foreign medical contingent has been accredited without being registered or having rendered community service as is contemplated in those laws.
(b) The laws contemplated in paragraph (a) are-
(i) sections 13, 14(c) and 14A of the Pharmacy Act, 1974 (Act No. 53 of 1974), in so far as they pertain to the registration of and the performance of community service by pharmacists;
(ii) sections 17 and 24A of the Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act No. 56 of 1974), in so far as they pertain to the registration of any profession registrable in terms of that Act and the performance of community service by persons registering for the first time or a profession listed in the regulations in terms of that Act;
(iii) section 16 of the Nursing Act, 1978 (Act No. 50 of 1978), in so far as it pertains to the registration or enrolment, as the case may he, of a nurse, midwife, nursing auxiliary, student nurse, student midwife, pupil nurse or pupil nursing auxiliary in terms of that Act; and
(iv) any other national legislation pertaining to the registration of or the performance of community service by any health care provider as defined in section 1 of the National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003), other than those contemplated in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii).