S.I. No. 625/2025 - Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2025

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2025.

2. The collective citation “the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003 to 2025” includes these regulations.

3. In these Regulations “Principal Regulations” means the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003 (

S.I. No. 540 of 2003

).

4. The Thirteenth Schedule (as inserted by Regulation 8 of the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (

S.I. No. 502 of 2025

)) to the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after the entry for “Trimethoprim” the following entry

“

Medicinal Product

Strength

Pharmaceutical Form

Purpose

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Trimethoprim

200mg

Tablets

For the treatment of symptoms consistent with uncomplicated lower urinary tract infection (cystitis), in accordance with the relevant protocol approved by the Minister for Health

”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 December, 2025.

JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

)

These Regulations amend the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003.

The purpose of these Regulations is to update the schedule of medicinal products which may be prescribed by registered pharmacists pursuant to Regulation 5C of the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003.

These Regulations may be cited as the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2025.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

30

th December,

2025.

I, JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 32

(as amended by

section 9

of the

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024

(No. 23 of 2024)) of the

Irish Medicines Board Act 1995

(No. 29 of 1995), hereby make the following regulations