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PART 12U.K.Dealings with medicinal products

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

CHAPTER 3U.K.Exemptions

Exemptions relating to supply in specific circumstancesU.K.

Emergency sale etc by pharmacist: pandemic diseasesU.K.

226.—(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.