No. 180 of 1993: Health and Welfare Matters Second Amendment Act, 1993.
To amend the Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act, 1991, so as to provide for the keeping and supply of medicine by nurses; and to further provide for the commencement of certain sections thereof; to amend the Social Assistance Act, 1992, so as to rectify textual errors; and to provide for incidental matters.
Substitution of section 9 of Act 94 of 1991 1.
21 of Act 65 of 1974 and amended by section 9 of Act 17 of 1979 9.
a person employed by a manufacturer or wholesale dealer in pharmaceutical products, and authorized thereto in writing by that manufacturer or dealer, to any medical practitioner, dentist, pharmacist, or veterinarian, nurse or practitioner on the prescribed conditions; or a veterinary assistant and veterinary nurse referred to in the Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 19 of 1982), upon a written prescription issued by a veterinarian for the treatment of a particular patient.
The Minister may, on the recommendation of the council, by regulation prescribe a medicine or substance or category of medicine or substance which no person shall acquire, use, have in his possession, manufacture or import unless a permit for such acquisition, use, possession, manufacture or import has been issued to him by the Director-General subject to prescribed conditions and any other condi tions specified in the permit.
A regulation referred to in subsection (2) may prohibit or prescribe measures to control the acquisition, import, collection, cultivation, keeping or export of any plant or substance from which any substance or medicine referred to in subsection (2) can be extracted, derived, produced or manufactured.
The Minister may by notice in the Gazette after consultation with the council and the South African Pharmacy Council referred to in section 2 of the Pharmacy Act, 1974, grant a person or organization or group or category of persons or organizations exemption to the extent and subject to the conditions as prescribed by regulation or specified in the notice, from the provisions of subsection (1); and in like manner amend or withdraw any such notice.'
Amendment of section 29 of Act 94 of 1991, as substituted by section 11 of Act 118 of 1993 2.
Sections 1(d), (n) and (m) 9, 16(c) up to and including (h), 19, 21, 23, 24 and 25 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 12 July 1991 come into operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation in the Gazette.; and by the deletion of subsection (2).
Amendment of section 2 of Act 59 of 1992, as amended by section 15 of Act 118 of 1993 3.
Amendment of section 17 of Act 118 of 1993 4.
"(b) Sections 13, 114, and 15 and 16 of this Act shall come into operation on the same date as the date on which the Social Assistance Act, 1992 (Act No. 59 of 1992), comes into operation.".
This Act shall be called the Health and Welfare Matters Second Amendment Act, 1993.