C1PART 12Dealings with medicinal products

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CHAPTER 3Exemptions

Exemptions relating to supply in specific circumstances

Emergency sale etc by pharmacist: pandemic diseases226

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.