Any person who shall commit any of the following acts shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than (), but not exceeding () or imprisonment of not less than()year and () day but not more than () years, or both, at the discretion of the court:
two hundred fifty thousand pesos (₱250.000.00), five hundred thousand pesos (₱500.000.00), one (1) , one (1), six (6)
¨ Commission of any act in violation of Sections () of this Act;
¨ Allowing the display of one’s COR in a pharmaceutical establishment where the pharmacist is () employed and practicing;
¨ Displaying of the pharmacist’s COR by pharmacy owners/operators in a pharmaceutical establishment where the pharmacist is not employed and practicing;
¨ Dispensing or allowing the dispensing or offering for sale of prescription drugs or pharmaceutical products in a place not () by the FDA as a pharmaceutical outlet;
30 and 31, not, licensed
Dispensing of prescription and pharmacist-only OTC pharmaceutical products by a person () than those under the direct and immediate supervision of a duly registered and licensed pharmacist;
¨ Allowing the dispensing of prescription and pharmacist-only OTC pharmaceutical products, without the ()() supervision of a duly registered and licensed pharmacist;
¨ Compounding and dispensing not in accordance with current ()()() and such other standards and guidelines issued by the Board;
¨ () of prescription and pharmacist-only OTC drugs by manufacturers, importers, and wholesalers to unlicensed pharmaceutical outlets and other establishments;
other, direct and immediate, Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Laboratory Practice and Philippine Practice Standards for Pharmacists,, Selling
Substituting prescription drugs which are not () equivalent to what was on the prescription, without the consent of the prescriber or not in accordance with Republic Act No. 6675;
¨ Forcing, coercing, or () a duly registered and licensed pharmacist to compound or dispense medical and pharmaceutical products in violation of the provisions of this Act;
¨ Preparing and compounding of pharmaceutical products in quantities greatly in excess of single therapeutic doses, without the presence and supervision of a duly registered and licensed ();
¨ ()with the labeling requirements for dispensed medicines by a pharmaceutical outlet;
generically, intimidating, pharmacist, Noncompliance
¨ Manufacturing and selling of pharmaceutical products under ()name or address, or both;
¨ ()() of pharmaceutical products;
¨ Manufacturing and selling of unsafe, substandard and counterfeit () products;
¨ Operating an () pharmaceutical outlet such as online pharmacy service or direct selling not authorized by the FDA;
fraudulent , Adulterating and misbranding, pharmaceutical, unlicensed
¨ Operating a Category A establishment which opens for business without a duly registered and licensed ();
¨ Operating a Category B establishment without the supervision and oversight of a duly registered and licensed ();
¨ Practicing pharmacy with an()()() license;
¨ Filling and refilling of prescription and pharmacistonly OTC pharmaceutical products by a person other than a duly registered and licensed pharmacist without the()() supervision;
pharmacist, pharmacist, expired, suspended or revoked, direct and immediate
Dispensing prescription drugs and pharmacist-only OTC drugs by rural health units without the supervision of a duly registered and licensed (); and
¨ All other acts or omissions () to the foregoing
pharmacist, analogous
Any person who shall commit any of the following acts shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than(), but not exceeding ()or imprisonment of not less than ()days but not more than ()year, or both
one hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000.00), two hundred thousand pesos (₱200,000.00) , thirty (30) thirty (30) , one (1)
Affixing of the title () by a person who is not a duly registered and licensed pharmacist;
Practicing the pharmacy profession in the Philippines without a valid ();
¨ Non-indication of a () of his/her COR and professional tax receipt numbers in official documents requiring such information;
¨ Refusal to display the COR of the pharmacist in a ()()place in the establishment and outlet where the pharmacist is employed and practicing;
"RPh", COR, PIC or STP, pharmacist, prominent and conspicuous
¨ () by a duly registered and licensed pharmacist with the requirements on the filling of prescription;
¨ () by a duly registered and licensed pharmacist on the requirements for partially-filled prescription;
¨ () of physician’s samples;
¨ Distribution of(), including anti-TB drugs and other product classification as may be prohibited by law as physician’s samples;
Noncompliance, Noncompliance, Selling, antimicrobials
¨ Removal, erasure and alteration of () or label of physician’s sample; ¨ Use of () or unusual names or terms in prescriptions; ¨
() of prescriptions where cipher, codes, or secret keys or unusual names or terms are used;
¨ () with labeling requirements for dispensed medicines;
mark, cipher, codes, or secret keys, Filling, Noncompliance
Noncompliance with the requirements on the keeping of () books by a pharmaceutical outlet;
¨ Employment of personnel in a pharmacy or pharmaceutical operation without the required ()();
¨ Refusal of a non-pharmacist owner/operator of a pharmaceutical outlet to undergo () and ();
¨ Refusal by the owner/operator to allow and require duly registered and licensed pharmacists and pharmacy support personnel to undergo (), training and certification;
record, training and certification, training certification, CPD
Rendering dispensing-related services by nonpharmacists in a pharmaceutical outlet without undergoing the required () and certification;
¨ Dispensing pharmaceutical products in medical missions without the supervision of a duly registered and licensed ();
¨ () with the required training and certification of professional service or medical representatives or professional service representatives, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy aides, pharmacy clerks, and other medicine handlers of pharmaceutical products.
¨ Both the medical representatives or professional service representatives, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy aides, pharmacy clerks, or medicine handlers and the pharmaceutical establishment and outlet () any such individual shall be held jointly liable; and
training, pharmacist, Noncompliance, emploving
¨ Violation of any provision of this () and its rules and regulations not aforementioned above.
¨ Any person, other than the citizens of the Philippines, having been found () of any violation as provided for in this section and the preceding section shall, after having paid the fine or having served the sentence, or both, when so adjudged, shall also be subject to immediate deportation.
¨ The penalties and liabilities herein provided shall be without prejudice to other sanction/s that may be imposed for violation of other applicable laws, policies, rules and regulations
¨ The owner/operator of the Phestablishments/outlets and the duly registered and licensed pharmacists/pharmacy support personnel are jointly liable for the willful violation of any provision of this Act
Act,guilty,
It shall be the primary duty of the () and the () to effectively enforce the provisions of this Act. All duly constituted law enforcement agencies and officers of the national, provincial, city or municipal government or of any political subdivision thereof shall ensure the effective enforcement and implementation of the provisions of this Act
Board, PRC
The () of the PRC shall immediately include in its programs the implementation of this Act, the () of which shall be charged against their current years’ appropriations and thereafter, in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Chairperson, funding
The incumbent Chairperson and members of the Board shall, in an interim capacity, continue to function as such until the Chairperson and members of the new Board, created under this Act, shall have been () and()
appointed, qualified
Within ()days after the approval of this Act, the Board, subject to the approval by the PRC, and in consultation with the APO, shall formulate and issue the rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Act.
one hundred twenty (120)
if any clause, provision, paragraph or part hereof shall be declared ()(), such declaration shall not affect, invalidate, or impair the other provisions otherwise valid and effective
unconstitutional or invalid
Republic Act No. 5921, as amended, is hereby (). AH other laws, presidential decrees, executive orders and other administrative issuances or parts thereof which are () to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.
repealed, contrary