Prescription Forms for Free Medicinals Rules, 2007

L.N. 67 of 2007

MEDICINES ACT

(CAP. 458)

Prescription Forms for Free Medicinals Rules, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 82 of the Medicines

Act, the Licensing Authority, with the concurrence of the Minister of

Health, the Elderly and Community Care has made the following rules>–

(1) The title of these rules is the Prescription Forms for Free

Medicinals Rules, 2007.

(2) These rules shall apply to every form used in prescribing

any medicinal which is supplied free as mentioned in the Medicines

Act.

(1) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when

prescribing a medicinal, except a medicinal falling under the Dangerous

Drugs Ordinance, or under the Drugs (Control) Regulations, 1985 to a

patient entitled to a medicinal aids grant under the Social Security Act,

when such a patient requires the medication for a period not exceeding

one month, shall be the form set out in the First Schedule to these rules.

(2) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when

prescribing a medicinal, except a medicinal falling under the Dangerous

Drugs Ordinance, or under the Drugs (Control) Regulations, 1985 to a

patient entitled to a medicinal aids grant under the Social Security Act,

when such a patient requires the medication for a period exceeding one

month, shall be the form set out in the Second Schedule to these rules.

(3) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when

prescribing a medicinal, except a medicinal falling under the Dangerous

Drugs Ordinance, or under the Drugs (Control) Regulations, 1985 to a

patient who is going to be discharged from a state hospital shall be the

form set out in the Fifth Schedule to these rules.

(4) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when

prescribing a medicinal falling under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance,

or under the Drugs (Control) Regulations, 1985 to a patient as is referred

to in sub-rules (1) and (2) hereof, shall be the form set out in the Third

Schedule to these rules.

(5) It shall be the duty of a practitioner to fill clearly and in

a legible manner all details mentioned in the relevant parts of the forms

referred to in the preceding sub-rules.

(6) In prescribing medicinals or other medical aid referred

to in sub-rules (1) and (2) hereof, it shall not be lawful for a practitioner

to prescribe more than an aggregate of three such medicinals or items

on any single form and in the case of items or medicinals falling under

sub-rule (2) hereof, the practitioner must indicate on the form the number

of times, up to a maximum of three, such a prescription is to be

considered valid.

(7) In prescribing any medicinal referred to in sub-rule (4),

a practitioner shall use a separate form in respect of each and every

medicinal.

(1) Every practitioner shall in prescribing medicinals as Prescription

booklets.

referred to in these rules, make use only of the booklet of forms bearing

serial numbers and issued to him by the Superintendent of Public Health,

unless a computer generated prescription is used.

(2) Every practitioner, whether for the purpose of his private

practice or for carrying out his duties in an official capacity as a result

of his employment with Government, with a view to meeting the needs

of his patients, is obliged to make any request for such prescription

booklets on the appropriate form set out in the Fourth Schedule to these

rules. Such request form shall be correctly filled in all respects and

signed by the practitioner, and shall be either handed in by such

practitioner personally to the Director of Pharmaceutical Services at

the government medical stores or the officer acting in that capacity or

sent by post to the Superintendent of Public Health at the Department

of Health in Valletta.

(3) Any prescription to which these rules apply shall be

deemed for all purposes of law to be made out by the practitioner to

whom the booklet from which it was culled was issued.

(4) Every practitioner is obliged to report in writing

forthwith to the Superintendent of Public Health any case of theft or

loss of any prescription booklets issued under these rules.

(Regola 2(4))

IR-RABA SKEDA

(Regola 3(2))

IL-HAMES SKEDA (Regola 2(3)

(1) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which rule 2 Dispensing.

(1), (3) and (4) applies, shall retain the prescription form, and no

medicinal shall be supplied more than once on the same prescription.

(2) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which rule 2

(2) applies, shall retain the prescription form or the appropriate portion

thereof, and no medicinal shall be supplied more than the number of

times indicated by the prescribing practitioner, as stipulated in rule 2

(6) hereof.

(3) The pharmacist dispensing such prescriptions is obliged

to fill clearly and in a legible manner all details mentioned in the relevant

parts of the prescription forms.

The Free Medicinals (Prescription Forms) Regulations, 1996

1996. are hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE (Rule 2(1))

SECOND SCHEDULE (Rule 2(2))

THIRD SCHEDULE (Rule 2(4))

FOURTH SCHEDULE (Rule 3(2))

(Rule 2(3)

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