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Pharmacy Act, 1974 (Act No. 53 of 1974)

Board Notices

Rules Relating to Good Pharmacy Practice, 2008

1.12 The Use of Trading Titles, Brand Names and Logos

 

Principle: A pharmacist and/or registered pharmacy owner must ensure that all trading titles, brand names and logos, are approved and recorded with Council.

 

1.13.1 No person issued with a licence in terms of section 22 of the Act and no pharmacy shall adopt and use a trading title, brand name or logo for a retail pharmacy or an institutional pharmacy without the prior written approval of the Council.

 

1.13.2 In deciding whether the trading title, brand name or logo (collectively referred to as 'the name') is acceptable to the Council, the following will be taken into account—
(a) duplication of names, i.e. whether such name is being used by another person or entity;
(b) the Council shall not approve names that are calculated to suggest that the pharmacy in question is superior to other pharmacies;
(c) offensive names will not be approved;
(d) names will not be approved which create the impression that medicines are being sold at discount;
(e) names which may cause the public to be misled, will not be approved;
(f) if a name can lead to passing off, same will not be approved;
(g) the Council shall not approve names that are not associated with or do not belong to the pharmacy concerned.

 

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