Prescription and Dispensing Requirements (Amendment)

L.N. 303 of 2013

MEDICINES ACT

(CAP. 458)

Prescription and Dispensing Requirements (Amendment)

Rules, 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 66 of the

Medicines Act, the Minister for Health, after consultation with the

Licensing Authority, has made the following rules:-

(1)

The title of these rules is the Prescription and Citation and

Dispensing Requirements (Amendment) Rules, 2013, and these rules commencement.

shall be read and construed as one with the Prescription and S.L. 458.49

Dispensing Requirements Rules, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal rules".

(2) These rules shall come into force on the 1st of January,

2014.

Paragraph (d) of rule 3 of the principal rules shall be Amends rule 3

of the principal

substituted by the following paragraph

rules.

"(d)

in the case of electronically generated

prescriptions, bear the details in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) and

must be officially signed by the prescriber, which may include

digital signatures.".

Rule 5 of the principal rules shall be substituted by the Amends rule 5

of the principal

following

rules.

" Dispensed

(1) The dispensing pharmacist

prescriptions,

shall write clearly and legibly thereon in ink or

repeat

any other indelible manner the word

prescriptions

and partially

"dispensed", date of dispensing, the quantity

dispensed

prescriptions.

supplied, the Pharmacy Council registration

number, signature and endorse the prescription

with the pharmacy stamp.

(2) For repeat prescriptions and

partially dispensed prescriptions, which are

given back to the patient, the dispensing

pharmacist shall write clearly and legibly

thereon in ink or any other indelible manner the

word "dispensed", date of dispensing, the

quantity supplied, the Pharmacy Council

registration number, signature and endorse the

prescription with the pharmacy stamp.".

4. In sub-rule (1) of rule 6 of the principal rules, for the words

"A pharmacist dispensing a prescription shall enter into any record

kept under the Medicines Act the following particulars:" there shall

be substituted the words "A pharmacist dispensing a repeat

prescription or partially dispensed prescription shall enter into any

record kept under the Medicines Act the following particulars:".

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