Section 38: Payment of practicing fees.

(1) A person shall not practice as a pharmacist in any year unless he has paid to the Council the appropriate practicing fees prescribed by the Council which shall be due in January of each year as prescribed by the Council.
(2) The Council shall disburse or distribute the aggregate amount collected as practicing fees as follows -
(a) 70 % to the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria; and
(b) 30 % to the Council.
(3) A pharmacist with at least 40 years post registration experience or who has attained the age of 65 years is exempted from the payment of practicing fees.
(4) A registered pharmacist who fails to pay the prescribed practicing fee by 31 March of every year shall in addition to the fee, pay a fine of a sum which is equivalent to 50 % of the applicable fee within the year.
(5) A registered pharmacist who has paid his practicing fee in any year as prescribed in subsection (1) or who is exempted from payment of practicing fee under subsection (3), is entitled to a practicing licence for that year authorising him, subject to any enactment or regulation in force applicable to him to -
(a) import, export, mix, compound, prepare, dispense, sell, procure and distribute drugs and poisons, herbal medicines, veterinary drugs and health supplements, chemicals and home use Invitro Diagnostics (IVDs);
(b) monitor pharmaceutical products;
(c) perform other duties related to -
(i) Drug Utilisation Review (DUR),
(ii) Pharmaceutical Care (PC),
(iii) Collaborative Drug Therapy Management (CDTM); and
(d) any other pharmaceutical activities.
(6) The Council may vary the practicing fees prescribed in subsection (1) provided that any variation of the practicing fee shall not come into effect unless confirmed at the Annual General Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria.