The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 No. 1830

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

3. 2. Appropriate practitioners

4. 3. Medicinal products on prescription only

5. 4. Duration of special provisions in relation to new medicinal products

6. 5. Exempt medicinal products

7. 6. Circumstances in which controlled drugs and medicinal products authorized by the European Community are not prescription only medicines

8. 7. Exemption for parenteral administration in an emergency to human beings of certain prescription only medicines

9. 8. Exemptions for emergency sale or supply

10. 9. Exemption for non-parenteral administration to human beings

11. 10. Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions

12. 11. Exemptions for certain persons

13. 12. Exemption for sale or supply in hospitals

14. 12A. Exemptions for the supply and administration of prescription only medicines by national health service bodies

15. 12B. Exemption for health professionals who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction in order to assist doctors or dentists in providing national health services

16. 12C. Exemption for persons conducting a retail pharmacy business who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction

17. 13. Exemption in cases involving another’s default

18. 14. Exemption in the case of a forged prescription

19. 15. Prescriptions

20. 16. Revocations

21. Signature

22. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       SUBSTANCES WHICH IF INCLUDED IN MEDICINAL PRODUCTS MAKE THOSE PRODUCTS PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTIONS ON THE SALE AND SUPPLY OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES

    2. SCHEDULE 2

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       DESCRIPTIONS AND CLASSES OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES IN RELATION TO WHICH APPROPRIATE NURSE PRACTITIONERS ARE APPROPRIATE PRACTITIONERS

    4. SCHEDULE 4

       SUBSTANCES NOT TO BE CONTAINED IN A PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDI CINE SOLD OR SUPPLIED UNDER THE EXEMPTION CONFERRED BY ARTICLE 8(3)

    5. SCHEDULE 5

       EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN PERSONS FROM SECTION 58(2) OF THE ACT

       1. PART I EXEMPTION FROM RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OR SUPPLY

       2. PART II EXEMPTIONS FROM THE RESTRICTION ON SUPPLY

       3. PART III EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTION ON ADMINISTRATION Column 1

    6. SCHEDULE 6

       ORDERS REVOKED

    7. SCHEDULE 7

       1. PART I PARTICULARS TO BE INCLUDED IN A PATIENT GROUP DIRECTION

       2. PART II PERSONS ON WHOSE BEHALF A PATIENT GROUP DIRECTION MUST BE SIGNED

       3. PART III CLASSES OF INDIVIDUAL BY WHOM PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES MAY BE SUPPLIED OR ADMINISTERED

23. Explanatory Note