You need to show your licence in a clear place at your premises. You must make sure it is easy to see for everyone who enters. If you sell medicines outside your main premises, you must show your licence when asked. You have to show your licence to an officer when they ask to see it. If you cannot show it right away, you must take it to the licensing authority's office within 24 hours. If you do not follow these rules, you will commit an offence under the Medicines Act 1981.

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53: Duration of licences, or

"How long a medicine licence lasts"

55: Register of licences, or

"A list of medicine licences kept by the licensing authority"

Part 3Provisions relating to licences

54Display of licences

Every licensee shall cause his current licence to be permanently exhibited in some conspicuous place where it can be readily seen by all persons having access to the premises to which the licence relates.
Every licensee who is authorised by his licence to sell medicines elsewhere than in his regular business premises shall produce his licence for inspection whenever required by an officer to do so, or, if he is unable to do so, shall produce it at the office of the licensing authority within 24 hours thereafter.
Every person commits an offence against this Act who contravenes subsection (1), or fails to produce his licence as required by subsection (2).

Compare

1960 No 97 s 19
1979 No 27 s 39