The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing by EEA Practitioners) Regulations 2008

Exemption in case of emergency sale or supply

7.—(1) With the exception of paragraphs (2)(d) and (5), article 8 (exemptions for emergency sale and supply) of the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997(1) applies to the sale or supply of a medicinal product made, pursuant to a request by an EEA health professional or in circumstances where treatment with the medicinal product has on a previous occasion been prescribed by an EEA health professional, by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business.

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1) those terms in article 8 which are listed in paragraph (3) shall have the meanings ascribed to them in paragraph (3).

(3) The terms referred to in paragraph (2) are—

(a) “prescription only medicine” means “medicinal product”;

(b) “doctor” includes an “EEA health professional”; and

(c) “prescription” includes a prescription given by an EEA health professional in a relevant European State.

(1)

S.I. 1997/1830; amendments to article 8 have been made by S.I.1998/2081, 2002/549, 2003/696, 2006/915.