Prescription Forms for Free Medicinals (Amendment) Rules, 2018

L.N. 232 of 2018

MEDICINES ACT

(CAP. 458)

Prescription Forms for Free Medicinals (Amendment) Rules, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 82 of the

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

Minister for Health, has made the following rules:-

The title of these rules is the Prescription Forms for Free Citation.

Medicinals (Amendment) Rules, 2018 and these rules shall be read and

construed as one with the Prescription Forms for Free Medicinals Rules, S.L. 458.24.

hereinafter referred to as "the principal rules".

Sub-rule (2) of rule 1 of the principal rules shall be Amends rule 1

of the principal

substituted by the following

rules.

"(2) The purpose of these rules is to regulate every form to

be used by medical practitioners or dental surgeons to issue

manual prescriptions, computer generated prescriptions and

eprescriptions, for medicinal products or medical aids as

provided for under the Social Security Act, as well as medicinal Cap. 318.

products and medical aids granted to a patient to be discharged

from a hospital.".

Rule 2 of the principal rules shall be substituted by the Substitutes rule

2 of the

following

principal rules.

"2. (1) The Superintendent of Public Health, shall by

notice published in the Gazette, establish the forms that shall be

used by a medical practitioner or dental surgeon when

prescribing medicinal products or medical aids granted under the Cap. 318.

Social Security Act. Every form shall include the prescription

requirements as provided for under the Prescription and S. L. 458.49.

Dispensing Requirements Rules

Provided that, the provisions of the Dangerous Drugs Cap. 101.

Ordinance, or the Drugs (Control) Regulations shall apply to a S.L. 31.18.

medicinal product falling under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance,

or under the Drugs (Control) Regulations.

(2) It shall be the duty of a medical practitioner or dental

surgeon to fill in all details mentioned in the relevant parts of the

forms as indicated by the Superintendent of Public Health.

(3) It shall be at the discretion of the medical practitioner

or dental surgeon to prescribe treatment for a maximum of six

months for medicinal products or medical aids not falling under

the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, or the Drugs (Control)

Regulations.".

Rule 3 of the principal rules shall be substituted by the

following

3. (1) Every medical practitioner or dental

"Prescriptions.

surgeon shall, in prescribing medicinal products or

medical aids as referred to in these rules, use the

forms as approved by the Superintendent of Public

Health and published in the Gazette.

(2) Any prescription to which these rules apply,

shall be deemed for all purposes of law, to be made out

by the medical practitioner or dental surgeon who

signed it, whether manually or electronically.

(3) Every medical practitioner or dental surgeon

is obliged to report in writing forthwith to the

Superintendent of Public Health, any case of theft or

loss of any manual prescription or unauthorised access

to his electronic profile.".

Rule 4 of the principal rules shall be substituted by the

following

"4. (1) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to

which these rules apply, is to observe the rules issued by the

Superintendent of Public Health, and no medicinal product and

medical aid shall be supplied more than the number of times

indicated by the prescribing medical practitioner or dental

surgeon.

(2) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which rule

2(4) applies, must observe the provisions of the Dangerous

Drugs Ordinance, or the Drugs (Control) Regulations.".

The First Schedule to the Fifth Schedule of the principal

rules shall be deleted.

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