Section 17: Sale of pharmaceutical products

17. Sale of pharmaceutical products (1) No person shall sell in a pharmacy any article other than— (a) a pharmaceutical product; (b) a surgical, medical, scientific, or hygienic appliance; (c) a toilet preparation; or (d) such other product as may be prescribed which is used, prepared or sold for a medical, scientific, hygienic or industrial purpose. (2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), no person shall sell by retail any medicine or drug in any place other than a pharmacy. (3) A medical practitioner may sell any medicine or drug if he does not keep open shop and there is no pharmacy within a distance of 5 kilometres from the place where he attends a patient. (4) The Minister may, after consultation with the Board, make regulations authorising the sale by retail, in any place other than a pharmacy, of such medicines or drugs as may be specified in those regulations. [S. 17 amended by Act 26 of 1988.]