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Pharmacy (Amendment) Bill, 2023
August 18 , 2023
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- The Bill amends the Pharmacy Act, 1948 which regulates the practice and profession of pharmacy.
- Registration under the Pharmacy Act, 1948 is mandatory to practice pharmacy in India.
- The Bill looks at the insertion of new section 32C, which provides a special provision relating to persons registered or qualified under the Jammu and Kashmir Pharmacy Act, 2011.
- Anyone who is registered as a pharmacist under the Jammu and Kashmir Pharmacy Act, 2011 or possesses qualifications prescribed under the 2011 Act will be deemed to be registered as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act, 1948.
- The Bill seeks to repeal 65 laws that are obsolete or that have been made redundant by other laws.
- It also corrects a minor drafting error in the Factoring Regulation Act, 2011
- The First Schedule of the Bill lists 24 laws that would be repealed.
- Of these, 16 are amending Acts, and two are from before 1947.
- The Second Schedule of the Bill lists 41 Appropriation Acts that would be repealed.
- These include 18 Appropriation Acts for the Railways.
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