The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Preliminary

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 Accountable officers

   1. 3. Designated Bodies

   2. 4. Appointment of Accountable Officers

   3. 5. Persons who may be appointed as accountable officers

   4. 6. Removal of accountable officers

   5. 7. Funds and other resources available to accountable officers

   6. 8. Accountable officers to have regard to best practice

   7. 9. Accountable officers to secure the safe management and use of controlled drugs

   8. 10. Accountable officers to ensure adequate destruction and disposal arrangements for controlled drugs

   9. 11. Accountable officers to ensure monitoring and auditing of the management and use of controlled drugs by designated bodies etc.

   10. 12. Powers to require declarations and self-assessments, as part of accountable officers’ monitoring and auditing arrangements or otherwise

   11. 13. Accountable officers to ensure relevant individuals receive appropriate training etc.

   12. 14. Accountable officers to monitor and audit the management and use of controlled drug by relevant individuals, and to monitor and assess their performance

   13. 15. Accountable officers to maintain a record of concerns regarding relevant individuals

   14. 16. Accountable officers to assess and investigate concerns

   15. 17. Accountable officers to take appropriate action if there are well-founded concerns

   16. 18. Arrangements for sharing information

4. PART 3 Entering premises, periodic inspections etc.

   1. 19. Accountable officers to carry out periodic inspections

   2. 20. Relevant premises

   3. 21. Inspections of private dwellings not requiring the presence of a constable

5. PART 4 Co-operation between health bodies and other organisations

   1. 22. Responsible bodies for the purposes of this Part

   2. 23. Relevant persons

   3. 24. General duty on responsible bodies to co-operate with each other as regards relevant persons

   4. 25. Duty to co-operate by disclosing information as regards relevant persons

   5. 26. Responsible bodies requesting additional information be disclosed about relevant persons

   6. 27. Restrictions relating to disclosures

   7. 28. Record keeping requirements relating to regulations 25 and 26

   8. 29. Occurrence reports

   9. 30. Accountable officers’ duties to protect the safety of patients and the general public

   10. 31. Disclosure of information in good faith

6. Signature

7. Explanatory Note