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 Registers23. Removal of name from, and restoration to register |
| (1) | The council may direct the registrar to remove from the register the name of any person— |
| (a) | who has been absent from the Republic during the three years preceding such removal; |
| (b) | who has failed to notify the registrar, within a period of three months as from the date of an enquiry sent by the registrar by registered letter to the address appearing in the register in respect of such person, of his present address; |
| (c) | who has requested that his name be removed from the register, in which case such person may be required to lodge with the registrar an affidavit to the effect that no disciplinary or criminal proceedings are being or are likely to be taken against him; |
| (d) | who has failed to pay to the council, within three months as from the date on which it became due for payment, any prescribed annual fee; |
| (e) | who has failed to furnish the registrar, within a period to be determined by the council, with such information as the registrar may require in terms of regulations made under this Act; or |
| (f) | whose name has been removed from the register, record or roll of any university, college, society or other body from which that person received the qualification by virtue of the holding whereof he was registered. |
| (2) | Notice of the removal, in terms of subsection (1), of his name from the register, or of the removal, in terms of section 14(4), of an entry from the register, shall be given by the registrar to the person concerned by way of a registered letter addressed to such person at the address appearing in respect of him in the register and such person shall, as from the date on which notice has so been given, cease to practise as a pharmacist or to perform any act which he, in his capacity as a registered person, was entitled to perform, and any registration certificate issued to him shall be deemed to be cancelled, until such time as his name or the entry removed from the register in terms of section 14 (4), as the case may be, is restored to the register. |
| (3) | The name of a person whose name has in terms of this section been removed from the register, or an entry removed from the register in terms of section 14(4), shall be restored to the register by the registrar upon the person concerned— |
| (a) | applying on the prescribed form for such restoration; |
| (b) | paying the fee prescribed in respect of such restoration (if any); and |
| (c) | complying with such other requirements as the council may determine. |