Section 64: Regulations, rules and guidelines.

(1) The Council may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations, rules and guidelines as may be required to give effect to the provisions of this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1), the Council may make rules, guidelines and regulations for -
(a) ensuring the ethical sales, dispensing, distribution, importation, exportation, compounding, warehousing, manufacture of drugs, medicines, poisons, operations of pharmacy technicians, medicine vendors and such other persons as may be approved by the Council;
(b) training of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and patent medicines vendors;
(c) supervision and regulation of the engagement, training and transfer of such persons;
(d) prescribing the type of licence to be issued annually under this Act to a person to practice as an intern pharmacist or pharmacy technician and operating premises, or, where the Council considers fit, for the annual renewal of the licence to be done by endorsement of the renewal on an existing licence;
(e) restricting the right of practice as a pharmacist or operating a premises where there is a default of payment of the amount of the annual subscription and the default continues for longer than such period as may be prescribed by the rules;
(f) restricting the right of practice as a pharmacist where the qualification granted outside Nigeria does not entitle the holder to practice as a pharmacist in Nigeria;
(g) prescribing the form and manner of the inspection of premises where medicines, pharmaceutical raw materials are kept, stored, sold or manufactured;
(h) reviewing all categories of pharmacy practice;
(i) prescribing the procedure for maintaining and filing with the Council within two months of the publication of the result of the final examination conducted by a school of health technology or any other institution approved by the Council for persons seeking to qualify as pharmacy technician including the list of the candidates who are successful at the examination;
(j) regulating all forms of manufacturing, compounding, storage, sale, dispensing, distribution, importation or exportation of drugs, poisons, medicines, herbal medicines, food supplements, nutriceuticals, veterinary drugs and pharmaceuticals or by whatever name described;
(k) prescribing the requirement of re-certification as a condition for the retention of the name of registered pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and medicine vendors in the register or conditions for renewal of the practicing license of a registered pharmacist, pharmacy technicians and medicine vendors;
(l) supervision and regulation of pharmacy technicians and restriction of the work of any pharmacy technician in default where such defaults continue longer than that prescribed by the rules;
(m) regulating the grant, renewal, restoration, endorsement, revocation, suspension, cancellation, withdrawal of licences; or
(n) prescribing the procedures for changes, variations and modification of licences.
(3) The power to make regulations, rules and guidelines under subsections (1) and (2) shall not be exercised in the absence of the Council.
(4) Any regulation, rule or guideline made under this Act shall be published in the Federal Government Gazette.