(1) Every selling dispenser or chemist must cause all the sets of premises where the business is being carried on to be registered under this section.
(2) An application for registration under this section must be made in the manner prescribed by regulations, and it will be the duty of the registrar to keep, in accordance with the provisions of the regulations, a register for the purposes of this section, in this Law referred to as the register of premises and, on payment of such fee as is provided in this Law, to enter therein all sets of premises in respect of which an application for registration is duly made.
(3) An applicant for registration under this section, will pay such fee in respect of the registration of any set of premises, as may be prescribed by regulations, and the owner of the business carried on in any premises entered in the register of premises will pay such fee, in this section referred to as a retention fee, in respect of the retention of the premises on the register of premises in any year subsequent to the year in which the premises were first registered under this section in pursuance of an application made by the applicant.
(4) If a person on whom a demand has been made, in the manner prescribed in the regulations, for payment of a retention fee fails to pay the fee within two (2) months after the date on which the demand for payment was made, the registrar may remove the premises from the register of premises, but if, either within the year in respect of which the fee is payable or within such longer period as the registrar may allow, the owner of the business carried on in the premises pays to the registrar the retention fee, together with such additional sum, if any, by way of penalty for the default, as may be prescribed by regulations, the premises will be restored to the register of premises and, if the registrar so directs, the restoration will have effect as from the date on which the premises were removed from the register.
(5) The registration of any premises under this section will become void on the expiration of fourteen (14) days from the date of any change in the ownership of the business carried on therein.
(6) A document purporting to be a certificate signed by the registrar stating that, on a specified date, specified premises were, or were not, registered under this section will be admissible in any proceedings as evidence that those premises were, or were not, registered on that date.
2. Authorised Sellers of Drugs to furnish Registrar with list of Shops and Selling Dispensers and Chemists in Charge
(1) Every selling dispenser or chemist will in the month of January in each year send to the registrar a list of all the premises where the business, so far as it comprises the sale of drugs, is being carried on and the name of the selling dispenser or chemist having the personal control of the business on each premises.
(2) A selling dispenser or chemist who fails to comply with the provisions of this section will be liable in respect of each offence, to a fine of Forty Five Thousand Naira (N45,000.00) and to a further fine of Fifteen Thousand Naira (N15,000.00) for every day subsequent to the day on which the selling dispenser or chemist is convicted of the offence during which the default continues.