Regulation 226 Emergency sale etc by pharmacist: pandemic diseases

(1)

Regulation 214(1) does not apply to the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business if conditions A and B are met.

(2)

Condition A is that the supply is made whilst a disease is, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently,—

(a)

pandemic; and

(b)

a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health.

(3)

Condition B is that the pharmacist by or under whose supervision the prescription only medicine is to be sold or supplied is satisfied—

(a)

that treatment with the prescription only medicine has on a previous occasion been prescribed by a relevant prescriber for the person to be treated with it; and

(b)

as to the dose which in the circumstances it would be appropriate for that person to take.

Notes on Part 12

Modifications

C1: Pt. 12 modified (E.W.) (1.10.2015) by The Nicotine Inhaling Products (Age of Sale and Proxy Purchasing) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/895), regs. 1(3), 4(2)