Section 7

No person shall take or use or affix to, or use in connection with, his premises any title or description reasonably calculated to suggest that he or anyone employed in the business carried on in his premises possesses any qualification with respect to the selling, dispensing or compounding of drugs or poisons other than the qualifications which he in fact possesses.

For the purpose of subsection (1), the use of the description

“pharmacy” or “dispensary” in connection with a business carried on in any premises shall be deemed to be in connection with the sale of goods by retail and to imply that the owner of the business or the person having the control of the business in those premises is registered under this Act:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the use of the word

“dispensary” by a medical practitioner, registered for the time being under any written law relating to the registration of medical practitioners in force in Malaysia, or by a veterinary surgeon, in connection with the practice of his profession in his own personal practice or business, or in a practice or business partnership of which every member is a registered medical practitioner, or to the use of the word “dispensary” in connection with dispensaries under the control of the Government or of any local authority.

Any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence liable on conviction before a Sessions Court to a penalty not exceeding five hundred ringgit, and to a further penalty of fifty ringgit for every day during which the offence continues.

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