Section 47: Meaning of professional misconduct or infamous conduct.

(1) For the purpose of this Part, professional misconduct or infamous conduct in a professional respect include -
(a) the publication or circulation of false, misleading or deceptive statements concerning the practice of pharmacy;
(b) divulging or revealing to unauthorised persons, a patient or another practitioner’s information, or the nature of professional pharmacy services rendered, without the patient’s express consent, or without order or direction of a court;
(c) selling, giving away, or disposing of accessories, chemicals, drugs, medicines or devices which have been obtained illegally, when the pharmacist knows or ought to have known of their having been obtained illegally or their intended use in illegal activities;
(d) manufacturing, importing, exporting, procuring, compounding, mixing, preparing, dispensing, selling, distributing of medicines, chemicals, drugs, poisons, devices or accessories in an unlicensed premises;
(e) dispensing, selling, distributing, giving away or disposing accessories, chemicals, drugs, poisons, medicines or devices to unauthorised persons;
(f) engaging in conduct likely to deceive, defraud or harm the patient or the
public, or demonstrating a willful or careless disregard for the health, welfare or safety of a patient or the public or engaging in conduct which substantially departs from the standards of care ordinarily exercised by a pharmacist;
(g) knowingly failing to maintain a complete and accurate record of all drugs and medicines produced, received, dispensed or disposed of in compliance with the requirements of all enactments, regulations and rules for the time being in force;
(h) practicing the profession without being licensed; or
(i) obtaining any money by fraud, misrepresentation or deception.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1), the Council may make rules prescribing other acts or omissions which shall constitute professional misconduct or infamous conduct in professional respect under this Act.