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Law No. 3 of 1983 with regard to regulating the pharmacology professions, mediators and agents of the drugs factories

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 3Date: 22/02/1983 Corresponding to 10/05/1403 HijriNumber of Articles: 66Status: In force

Official Gazette :Issue: 1Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 01/01/1983 Corresponding to 17/03/1403 HijriPage from: 2379

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Drugstores

38 Article - Amended

A drugstore may only be opened after obtaining a licence from the competent authority in the Council according to the provisions of Article 9 of this law.

39 Article

A special record shall be kept at the competent authority to include the names of the owners of licensed stores, the registration number and the name of the owner of the store, their nationality, age, place of residence and address of the store and any other data required by the competent authority. Any change made to the information supplied with the licence renewal, alteration or cancelation shall also be accurately recorded.

40 Article

A signboard shall be placed at the front of the store marked "drugstore". The word pharmacy or the like may not be written. The name of the licence holder shall be inscribed on the board.

41 Article - Amended

It is not permitted in the drugstore to prepare or compound any medicine, drug or therapeutic substance to be used topically or internally for the treatment or prophylaxis in humans or animals. Medicines or medical preparations listed in the table enclosed with this law may only be kept in the drugstore after obtaining written permission from the competent authority at the Council. Such permission shall be kept in independent folder in the store. Medicines and pharmaceutical products shall be kept in separate place from the other sections in the store.

42 Article

The owner of the drugstore shall register in a special record the quantity of medicines and medical preparations supplied to the store, the date of their supply, their ingredients and their sources. The outgoing of these products, their quantities and the date that they were dispensed shall be kept in another record.

The two record pages shall be numbered and stamped with the seal of the competent authority. Entry therein shall be in clearly legible serial numbers without leaving spaces for the text to be altered, erased or amended. Also margins shall be free of writings.

43 Article

The selling from the store shall be restricted to pharmacies and hospitals. Direct selling to the public may not be permitted. The medicines and pharmaceuticals products must be sold in their original packages.

Where medicines and pharmaceutical products are delivered to pharmacies or hospitals in retail, they must be in tight, clean containers which are clearly labeled with the owner name of the drugstore, its address, and all medication data, in particular its source and date of expiry. It is not permitted to sell or possess any expired medicine according to what is recorded. a set of standard scales that weigh from 1 g to 5000 g shall be kept in the store.

44 Article

Owners of drugstores who have licences for its management from the competent authority at the time this law has come into force shall continue their management according to the provisions of this law. Such owners shall submit applications for registering in the records of the competent authority and obtaining new licences within sixty days of the date of issue of this law. The documents stated in Articles 9 and 10 shall be attached with the application. Not submitting such application within this period will result in the cancellation of prior licences. The provisions of Article 4 herein shall apply on the submission of the application and the decision thereon.