MEDICINE SELLERS’ LICENCES

In most cases Schedule 2 poisons may be sold from pharmacies only. Schedule 2 poisons have the
words PHARMACY MEDICINE at the top of the label.
Some Schedule 2 poisons may be sold by a person who is not a pharmacist when licensed as a
Medicine Seller. The penalty for selling one of these poisons without a licence may be a fine up to
$10,000.
A Medicine Seller’s Licence may be issued to a person who has a shop for the sale of goods by retail:
• which is open for business for at least 38 hours per week; and
• is 25 kilometres or more by the shortest practical route from the nearest pharmacy which is
open for at least 3 hours daily (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) or
• if there is a genuine local community need for a medicine seller.

Persons holding a Medicine Seller's Licence may sell:

Product Pack Sizes

A
Antistine Privine Eye Drops 10 ml
Actifed CC 100 ml or 200 ml
Asprodeine Soluble 24 tablets
Atrovent Nasal Spray 15 ml
C
Cepacol Anaethetic Lozenges 16 lozenges
Claratyne Effervescent Tablets 10 mg 10 tablets
Claratyne Tablets 10 mg 10 or 30 tablets
Claratyne Syrup 1 mg/ml 100 ml
Clarinase Tablets 10 tablets
Clear Eyes 15 ml
Codis Tablets 24 tablets
Codral Tablets 20 tablets
Combantryn Granules 2.5 g or 4 g
Combantryn Suspension 15 ml or 50 ml
Combantryn Tablets 125mg 6 or 18 tablets
Combantryn Tablets 250mg 6 tablets
D
Dequadin MU Paint 10 ml
Disprin Tablets 50 tablets
Drixine Drops 15 ml
Drixine Metered Pump Spray 15 ml
Drixine Metered Pump Spray refill 15 ml
Drixine Spray 15 ml
Drixine Paediatric drops 15 ml
Dymadon Suspension 100 ml
Dymadon Tablets 30 or 50 tablets

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Ecostatin Cream 1% 20 grams
Ecostatin Dusting Powder 1% 20 grams
F
Fefol Capsules 30, 60 capsules
Feldene Gel 5 mg/g 25 or 50 grams
Fergon Elixir 100 ml
Ferro-gradumet Tablets 30 or 60 tablets
FGF Tablets 30 or 60 tablets
Flurets Tablets 100 tablets
Flurets Paediatric Drops 50 ml
G
Gastrostop Capsules 2mg 6 capsules
I
Imodium Capsules 2 mg 4 or 5 or 8 capsules
Indospray 1% 50 ml or 200 ml
K
Kwells Tablets 10 tablets
L
Lamisil Cream 1% 15 grams
Lamisil Dermagel 1% 5, 15 or 30 grams
Lip-sed Cold Sore Lotion 6 ml
Livostin Eye Drops 4 ml
Livostin Nasal Spray 10 ml
Lomide Eye Drops 0.1 % 10 ml
Lorastyne Tablets 10 mg 10 or 30 Tablets
Lorastyne Syrup 1 mg/ml 100 ml
M
Mucaine Suspension 200 ml or 500 ml
Mucaine Tablets 100 tablets
Mycospor Cream 15 grams
Mycostatin Cream 15 grams
Mycostatin Ointment 15 grams
N
Naprogesic 12 tablets
Nilstat Cream 15 grams
Nizoral Cream 2% 30 grams
Nizoral Shampoo 2% 60 ml or 6x6 ml sachets
O
Opticrom Eye Drops 2% 10 ml
Ora-sed Lotion 6 ml
Otrivin Nose Drops 15 ml
Otrivin Nasal Spray 15 ml
Otrivin Nasal for children 15 ml
Orudis Gel 2.5% 30 or 60 grams

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Panadol Tablets 50 tablets
Panadol Drops 20 ml
Panadol Elixir 100 ml or 200 ml
Panadeine Tablets 12 or 24
Paxyl Cream 35 g or 75 g
Paxyl Lotion 150 ml
Paxyl Spray 125 ml
Pevaryl Cream 1% 20 grams
Pevaryl Lotion 1% 20 ml
Pevaryl Dusting Powder 1% 30 grams
Ponstan capsules 20 capsules
Prantal Powder 50 g
R
Rynacrom Nasal Spray 2% 26 ml
Rynacrom Nasal Spray 4% 15 ml
S
Sinex Spray 15 ml
Sinex Metered Pump Spray 20 ml
Sinex Metered Pump Spray refill 20 ml
SM-33 Gel 10 g
SM-33 Liquid 10 ml
T
Telfast Capsules 60 mg 20 capsules
Telfast Tablets 120 mg 10 or 30 tablets
Telfast Tablets 180 mg 10 or 30 tablets
Tempra Drops 25 ml
Tempra Syrup 150 ml
Travacalm Tablets 10 tablets
Triprofen Tablets 200 mg 24 or 48 tablets
V
Vectavir Cream 2 or 5 gram
Veganin Tablets 20 tablets
Vermox Tablets 2 or 6 tablets
Vermox Suspension 25 ml
Vermox Family Combination Pack
Visine Eye Drops 15 ml
Voltaren Emulgel 100 grams
Z
Zovirax Cold sore cream 2 grams
Zyrtec Tablets 10 mg
Zyrtec Oral Solution 1mg/mL

NOTE: The above list is not a complete list of products containing Schedule 2 poisons
available to the licensee.

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 A medicine seller can not sell the following poisons:
Aloxiprin
Aspirin in packs of more than 50 dosage units (Aspro, Disprin, or Bayer Aspirin)
Cinnamedrine
Dicophane (DDT) [Note all use has been prohibited]
Dicyclomine in preparations for infants (Infacol C, Merbentyl Syrup)
Dimethisoquin
Erythrityl tetranitrate
Etafedrine
Ethoheptazine
Glyceryl trinitrate (Anginine, Nitradisc Nitrobid Ointment or Transiderm-nitro)
Isopropamide
Isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil or Isotrate)
Methoxyphenamine
Methylephedrine
Nitrate esters of polycyclic alcohols (Peritrate)
Noscapine
Paracetamol in packs of more than 50 dosage units (Dymadon, Panacete or Panadol)
Phedrazine
Podophyllin (Posalfilin, Salicyn-P, or Wart-kil)
Podophyllotoxin (Wartec)
Potassium chlorate
Pramoxine
Procyclidine
Pseudoephedrine
Sodium nitrite (OAR Powder or Tablets)
NOTE: The above list is not complete in respect of products which contain the poisons named.

Applicant bona fides

Before issuing a licence the Department of Health may make any enquiries necessary to establish the
bona fides of the applicant and to ascertain if they are a fit and proper person to hold a licence.
Please include the following with your application:-
• The current certificate(s) of registration of your company and/or trading names including the
names and addresses of the company directors; or
• The names of the persons running the business where there is no company name but there is
a trading name, and the current certificate(s) of registration of trading names; or
• The names of the persons running the business where there is no company name or trading
name.

Expiry Date
Medicine sellers’ licences expire on the 30 November following the date of issue. New licences are
therefore issued for varying periods of time, from 1 to 12 months, depending on the date of
application. Thereafter, if renewed, licences are issued for further periods of twelve months.

Licence Fees
The fees for a medicine seller’s licence for various periods of time are shown in the following table:

Month of issue Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Fee $ 35.50 32.50 29.50 26.50 23.60 20.70 17.70 14.80 11.80 8.85 5.90 2.95

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Licence Conditions
Special Regulations apply to the storage and sale of these medicines. Medicine Sellers’ Licences also
have conditions attached to them and the licensee must comply with these conditions as well as the
regulations.
The penalty for non-compliance with a condition of the licence is a fine up to $5000. In addition if the
licensee is convicted of an offence under the Act or regulations or, in the opinion of the Department of
Health, has failed to comply with a condition the licence may be revoked.
Regulations and licence conditions include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
Schedule 2 poisons (medicines) must be stored in a part of the shop which is not accessible to the
public for self selection of goods; or on a shelf 1.2 metres or more above floor level and located
away from steps, stairways, ramps or escalators ( that is, out of reach of a five year old child)
unless the container:
• is fitted with a child-resistant lid;
• is enclosed in a blister pack; or
• contains more than 5 litres or 5 kilograms; and
• is away from human or animal food; or in such a manner that if leakage or spillage occurs
human or animal food will not be contaminated.
Schedule 2 poisons (medicines) must not be displayed in floor or dump bins or at the check-out or
cash register.
Other conditions may be included on a licence for special circumstances which may apply to one
licensee or to medicine sellers generally.
(CSA 15, 55; PO 10, 11)

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES LICENSING Michael Cooper

Public Health Phone: (08) 8226 7117
Department of Health E-mail: controlled.substances@health.sa.gov.au
PO Box 6, Rundle Mall ADELAIDE 5000 Fax: (08) 8226 6681