Drugs (Control) (Amendment No 2) Regulations, 2018

L.N. 233 of 2018

MEDICAL AND KINDRED PROFESSIONS ORDINANCE

(CAP. 31)

Drugs (Control) (Amendment No 2) Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 40 of the

Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, the Minister for Public

Health, after consultation with the Council of Health, has made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Drugs (Control) Citation.

(Amendment No 2) Regulations, 2018 and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Drugs (Control) Regulations, S.L.31.18.

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Immediately after the definition "identity identification Amends

document" in regulation 2 of the principal regulations, there shall be regulation

the principal

added the following new definition

regulations.

" "prescription" means any medicinal prescription issued

by a professional person qualified to prescribe medicinal

products by or under the Medicines Act, including manual Cap. 458.

prescriptions,

computer

generated

prescriptions

and

eprescriptions;".

(1) Regulation 7 of the principal regulations shall be Amends

regulation 7 of

amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

sub-regulation (1) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(1) Every manual prescription for a specified drug shall

be written in ink or in other indelible material on the form set out

in the Seventh Schedule to these Regulations. In the case of

computer generated prescriptions and eprescriptions, the medical

practitioner shall use the official prescription as approved by the

Superintendent of Public Health.";

(b) in sub-regulation (8) thereof the word "A" immediately

preceding the words "medical practitioner" shall be substituted by the

words "When issuing a manual prescription a";

(c) sub-regulation (9) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(9) It shall be the duty of a medical practitioner to report

in writing forthwith to the Superintendent any case of theft or

loss of such booklet or unauthorised access to his electronic

profile, and it shall not be lawful for a medical practitioner to

use any prescription form from any booklet of forms issued to

another medical practitioner, or issue computer generated

prescriptions or eprescriptions from the electronic profile of

another medical practitioner." .

Immediately after sub-regulation (6) of regulation 8 of the

principal regulations, there shall be added the following sub-

regulation

"(7) (a) In the case of eprescriptions, the pharmacist

shall access the electronic system by the applicable official

verification.

(b) The pharmacist must ensure that the

prescription was sent by the official electronic system and fill in

the details specified by these regulations in the manner that is

required by the electronic system.".

In paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (6) of regulation 9 of the

principal regulations the word "It" immediately preceding the words

"shall be lawful" shall be substituted with the words "With the

exception of methylphenidate, it".

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