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36 of 1977
The Health Laws Amendment Act 36 of 1977 intends:
- to amend the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act, 1965, so as to provide for an increase of the membership of the Medicines Control Council;
- to amend the Mental Health Act, 1973 [repealed in 2004], so as:
- to regulate the expiry of the period of office of certain members of a hospital board; and
- to make provision for the payment of amounts for the treatment of certain persons in certain state institutions;
- to amend the Homeopaths, Naturopaths, Osteopaths and Herbalists Act, 1974 [repealed in 1982], so as:
- to apply that Act to the territory of South West Africa; and
- to prohibit persons pursuing certain practices from committing certain acts with patients;
- to amend the Pharmacy Act, 1974, so as:
- to further regulate the carrying on of the business of retail pharmacist by bodies corporate; and
- to regulate the training and control of philrmaceutical auxiliary personnel;
- to amend the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act, 1974, so as:to provide:
- for the registration of student interns; for the limited registration of certain persons in respect of supplementary health service professions, and the exemption of persons so registered from the restrictions imposed in respect of their registration, upon compliance by them with certain requirements;
- for the performance of certain acts by student interns;
- for the granting of authority to certain registered persons to supply certain medicines in certain circumstances; and
- for the making of regulations relating to the removal by the council from the registers in question of the names of medical, dental or psychology students, the nature and duration of training to be undergone by persons who have obtained certain certificates before they may be registered in respect of supplementary health service professions, the registration of student interns and the conduct of inquiries into the conduct or alleged conduct of members of supplementary health service professions; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
30 March 1977
