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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1363
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1363
- AMENDING Section 18, 25 AND 39 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5921, MORE
COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE PHARMACY LAW
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WHEREAS,
there is a need to amend Sections 18, 25 and 39 of the Pharmacy Law to
give all Filipinos equal opportunities in the pursuit of the pharmacy
profession and in the sale of medicine and drugs;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution in order to
clarify Sections 18, 25 and 39 of Republic Act No. 5921, do hereby
order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 18 of Republic Act No. 5921 is
hereby amended to read as follows: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"Sec. 18. Candidate for board examination. — A
candidate for the board examination in Pharmacy shall have the
following qualifications:cralaw:red
"(a) He shall be a citizen of the Philippines;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"(b) He shall be of good moral character;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"(c) He shall have completed an
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Program which shall consist of at least nine hundred sixty hours,
one-half of which shall be spent equally distributed in a prescription
pharmacy, a pharmaceutical manufacturing laboratory and a hospital
pharmacy duly accredited by the Council of Pharmacy and the rest of the
hours of internship shall be spent in any or all of the said
establishments at the choice of the candidate. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
For this purpose, the above-mentioned prescription pharmacy,
pharmaceutical manufacturing laboratory and hospital pharmacy shall
keep a separate record of pharmacy students who have undergone said
internship program directly under their control and as a result thereof
shall issue the proper certificate of said hours of internship. It
shall also be the duty of said establishments to submit annually a
complete report of the names of those who have undergone training under
their supervision and corresponding number of hours of internship
credit of each of the pharmacy students to their respective colleges or
school and to the Board of Pharmacy for proper accreditation; and
"(d) He shall have graduated with a degree of
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or with an equivalent degree from a
school, college or university duly accredited by the Council of
Pharmaceutical Education after satisfactorily completing a standards
pharmacy course of not less than five academic years;"
PROVIDED, however, that certificates of registration as pharmacists may
be issued to those examinees in the pharmacists examinations who could
not register because they acquired Philippine citizenship by election
or naturalization.
Section 2. Section 25 of the Same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 25. Sale of medicine, pharmaceuticals, drugs
and devices. — No medicine, pharmaceutical, or drug of whatever nature
and kind or device shall be compounded, dispensed, sold or resold, or
otherwise be made available to the consuming public except through a
prescription drugstore or hospital pharmacy, duly established in
accordance with the provisions of this Act. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"Pharmaceutical, drug or biological manufacturing establishments,
importers and wholesalers of drugs, medicines or biologic products,
shall not sell their products for re-sale except only to retail
drugstores, hospital pharmacies or to other drug wholesalers under the
supervision of registered pharmacists, duly established and licensed
under the Retail Trade Law."
Section 3. Section 39 of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 39. Requirements for the opening and operation
of drugstores and pharmacies. — The minimum requirements necessary for
the opening and operation of drugstores and pharmacies shall be in
accordance with the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Food
and Drug Administration in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
No application for the opening of a retail drugstore shall be approved
unless it is signed by a Filipino registered pharmacist, either as
owner or as supervising pharmacist pursuant to section twenty-seven of
this Act." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 4. Any provision of existing laws, rules and
regulations in conflict with this Decree are hereby modified or
repealed accordingly. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Done in the City of Manila,
this 2nd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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