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Pharmacy Act, 1974 (Act No. 53 of 1974)

Chapter II : Registration of Pharmacists and Bodies Corporate carrying on Business as a Pharmacist and Maintenance of Registers

28. Registration of additional qualifications and of specialities

 

(1)
(a) The council may from time to time by notice in the Gazette make rules providing for the recognition by the council of the degrees, diplomas or certificates which may be registered as additional qualifications, and only qualifications so recognized shall be registrable under this section.
(b) The Minister may from time to time, on the recommendation of the council, prescribe the specialities which may be registered as specialities, and only specialities so prescribed shall be registrable under this section.

 

(2) Any person who desires to have a degree, diploma or certificate other than the degree, diploma or certificate by virtue of which he has in the first instance been registered, or who desires to have a prescribed speciality contemplated in subsection (1), registered, shall apply to the registrar, submitting such documentary proof that he holds the additional qualification in question as the board may require, or, in the case of an application for registration of a speciality, submitting proof that he complies with the prescribed requirements, and if the registrar is satisfied that such additional qualification is a degree, diploma or certificate recognized in terms of subsection (1), or, in respect of a speciality, that such speciality has been prescribed and that the prescribed requirements have been complied with, he shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, cause such degree, diploma or certificate, or speciality, as the case may be, to be entered in the register.

 

(3) Any person whose application for registration of a speciality has been refused by the registrar on the ground of non-compliance with any prescribed requirement, may apply to the registrar to be permitted by the council to sit for an examination referred to in subsection (4) in respect of the speciality for which he desires registration, before examiners appointed by the council and on a date and at a place determined by the council.

 

(4) The Minister may from time to time on the recommendation of the council make regulations relating to examinations which shall be required for the purposes of subsection (3) in respect of the prescribed specialities contemplated in subsection (1), and relating to fees which shall be paid by candidates for such examinations.

 

(5) If any person referred to in subsection (3) has passed, in accordance with the relevant regulations, any examination referred to in subsection (4) in respect of the speciality for which he desires registration, the registrar shall on payment of the prescribed fee cause the speciality concerned to be entered in the register in respect of the person concerned.

 

(6)
(a) The registrar shall, on the instructions of the council, remove from the register any degree, diploma or certificate registered as an additional qualification in terms of this section, if in respect of such qualification the name of the holder thereof has been removed from the roll, register or record of the university, college, society or other body from which that person received such qualification.
(b) The registrar shall, on the instructions of the council, remove from the register any speciality registered in terms of this section, if in the opinion of the council, in the case of a person referred to in subsection (2), such person has ceased to comply with any prescribed requirement for the registration of the speciality in question, or if, in the case of any person in respect of whom a speciality is registered, such person has lodged with the registrar a written application for the removal of the speciality in question from the register.
(c) A degree, diploma or certificate removed in terms of paragraph (a), or a speciality removed in terms of paragraph (b), shall on the instruction of the council be restored by the registrar to the register upon the person concerned—
(i) applying on the prescribed form for such restoration;
(ii) paying the fee prescribed in respect of such restoration (if any); and
(iii) complying in the opinion of the council with such other requirements (if any) as the council may determine.

 

(7) No registered person shall take, use or publish in any way whatsoever any name, title, description or symbol indicating or calculated to lead persons to infer that he possesses any professional qualification which is not shown in the register against his name.

 

(8) No registered person shall practise as a pharmacist who professes to be a specialist in respect of a prescribed speciality contemplated in subsection (1), or shall hold himself out as such a specialist, or shall in any other manner profess to be a person in respect of whom any such speciality has been registered, unless the speciality in question has been registered in terms of this section in respect of such person.