Section 14: Practising fees

(1) No registered person shall practise as a pharmacist in any year unless he has paid to the Council in respect of that year, the appropriate practising fee which shall be due every January as prescribed hereunder-
(a) in the case of a pharmacist of not less than fifteen (15) years' post registration experience N250;
(b) in the case of a pharmacist of less than fifteen years' but more than ten (10) years' post registration experience N200;
(c) in the case of a pharmacist of ten years' post registration experience and below N100;
(d) in the case of a pharmacist undergoing internship training N50;
(e) in the case of a pharmacist during his year in the National Service Corps Scheme N50.
(2) Without prejudice to being fully registered, any pharmacist with at least fifty years' post registration experience shall not pay practising fee.
(3) Every fully registered pharmacist who has paid his registration fee as prescribed in subsection (1) above or is exempted from payment of registration fee as in subsection (2) of this section, shall be entitled to an annual practising licence authorising him, subject to any regulations, in force, to import, mix, compound, prepare, dispense, sell and distribute drugs and poisons.
(4) The Council may with the confirmation of the Minister, from time to time, vary the practising fees prescribed in subsection (1) of this section.
(5) The Council shall share the aggregate amount collected as practising fees as follows-
(a) 70 per centum to the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria; and
(b) 30 per centum to the Council.
(6) Any pharmacist who in respect of any year without paying the practising fee practises as such, is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction-
(a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine of twice the prescribed practising fee; and
(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine of not less than ten times the prescribed practising fee and if the pharmacist is in the employment of any person, the employer is also guilty of an offence punishable in like manner as the pharmacist if it is proved that the failure to pay the practising fee was with his knowledge, consent and connivance.