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Title: Pharmaceutical Affairs Act CH
Category: Ministry of Health and Welfare(衛生福利部)
Chapter III Management of Pharmacies and Dispensation of Drugs
Article 34
A pharmacy shall obtain a pharmacy license and shall have the status and the name of the managing person thereof marked at a conspicuous place in the pharmacy. The provisions of the first Paragraph of the Article 27 hereof shall apply mutatis mutandis to the registration of its establishment and/or alteration of particulars registered.
Where a pharmacy is concurrently engaged in business in the second Paragraph of the Article 19, it shall be subject to the relevant provisions governing pharmaceutical firms, without obtaining a separate permit license for pharmaceutical firm.
Article 35
Where a pharmacy is managed in person by a pharmacist who has received training of Chinese medicine to an appropriate level, such pharmacy may engage in, concurrently, dispensation, supply or retail sale of Chinese medicines.
Article 36
Where a pharmacy managed in person by a pharmacist is equipped with assessment facilities, it may perform drug assessment operation.
Article 37
Dispensation of drugs shall not be performed unless it follows established operational procedures; the operational guidelines shall be established by the central competent health authority.
The aforesaid dispensation of drugs shall be performed by a pharmacist. However, dispensation of non-narcotic drugs may be performed by an assistant pharmacist.
Dispensation of drugs in hospitals must be performed by a pharmacist. However, an assistant pharmacist who had performed dispensation of drugs before the amendment of this Act passed into force on February 5, 1993, shall apply to the provisions of the preceding Paragraph and may continue performing dispensation of drugs in the same hospital or any other hospital. Unless otherwise provided in the law, dispensation of Chinese medicines shall be performed under the supervision of a Chinese medicine doctor.
Article 38
The provisions of Article 12 and Articles 16 through 20 of the Pharmacists’ Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to the dispensation of drugs by assistant pharmacist.