Sale of drugs and poisons

(1) Subject to this Act, no person shall, (a) keep open any shop for selling, retailing, dispensing or compounding any drugs, poisons or patent or proprietary medicines; or (b) sell, retail, dispense or compound any drugs, poisons or patent or proprietary medicine in any shop, unless that shop is under the immediate personal control, management and supervision of a registered chemist and druggist employed therein for the purpose, and the drug, poison, patent or proprietary medicine is sold, retailed, dispensed or compounded by or under the direct charge and supervision of that duly registered chemist and druggist. (2) No registered chemist and druggist who is employed in the control, management and supervision of any one shop shall be capable of being so employed in any other shop, and any such employment in any shop whilst he holds such employment shall be invalid in all respects whatever. (3) The registered person by or under whose supervision any drug or poison is dispensed or compounded shall write on a label on the bottle or other package containing the drug or poison his name or initials, and any label attached to any such bottle or package, and having the name or initials of any registered person written thereon, shall be sufficient evidence in any case that such drug or poison was dispensed or compounded by him or under his supervision, unless the contrary is shown. (4) The person by or in whose name any such open shop as aforesaid is kept shall see that subsection (3) of this section, is 14 complied with in respect of all drugs or poisons sent from his shop.