# The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997, Article 10: Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions


(1) A medicinal product is not a prescription only medicine for the purposes of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 by virtue of Article 5(1) if it is a medicinal product which is not for parenteral administration and which consists of or contains, any of the substances listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 or in Schedule 2, only one or more unit preparation of such substances, if–
(a) each such unit preparation has been diluted to at least one part in a million (6x), and the person selling, supplying or administering the medicinal product has been requested by or on behalf of a particular person and in that person’s presence to use his own judgment as to the treatment required; or
(b) each such unit preparation has been diluted to at least one part in a million million (6c).
(2) A medicinal product is not a prescription only medicine for the purposes of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 by virtue of Article 5(1) if it is a medicinal product which is not for parenteral administration and which consists of or contains solely one or more unit preparations of the following substances—
Aconite
Arsenic Trioxide
Belladonna Herb
Ignatia Bean
Nux Vomica Seed,
if each such unit preparation has been diluted to at least one part in a million (6x)

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1830/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-order-1997/article-10
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