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The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980

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Regulation 5(1)

SCHEDULE 1CLASSES OF PERSONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF REGULATION 5

Practitioners.

Persons lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business within the meaning of section 69.

Authorities or persons carrying on the business of a hospital or health centre.

Holders of wholesale dealer's licences or persons to whom the restrictions imposed by section 8(3) (wholesale dealer's licences) do not apply by virtue of an exemption conferred by or under the Act or by virtue of the provisions of section 48.

Ministers of the Crown and Government departments and officers thereof.

Regulation 6(1)

SCHEDULE 2PARTICULARS IN PHARMACY RECORDS

1.  Subject to paragraph 2, where the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine is either in pursuance of a prescription given by a practitioner or under Article 6(1) of the Prescription Only Order (emergency supply on doctor's undertaking to furnish prescription), the particulars referred to in regulation 6(1)(a) are—

(a)the date on which the prescription only medicine was sold or supplied;

(b)the name, quantity and, except where it is apparent from the name, the pharmaceutical form and strength of the prescription only medicine sold or supplied;

(c)the name and address of the practitioner giving the prescription;

(d)the name and address of the person for whom or for whose animal, as the case may be, the prescription only medicine was prescribed;

(e)the date on the prescription; and

(f)in relation to the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine under Article 6(1) of the Prescription Only Order, the date on which the prescription relating to that sale or supply is received.

2.  Where the sale or supply is in pursuance of a repeatable prescription and is not the first sale or supply in pursuance of that prescription the particulars referred to in regulation 6(1)(a) are either—

(a)(i)the date on which the prescription only medicine is sold or supplied, and

(ii)a reference to an entry in the register referred to in regulation 6(1)(a) which was made in respect of the first sale or supply in pursuance of that prescription and which contains the particulars specified in paragraph 1; or

(b)the particulars specified in paragraph 1.

3.  Where the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine is a sale or supply under Article 6(3) of the Prescription Only Order (emergency supply of a limited quantity of medicine) the particulars referred to in regulation 6(1)(a) are—

(a)the date on which the prescription only medicine was sold or supplied;

(b)the name, quantity and, except where it is apparent from the name, the pharmaceutical, form and strength of the prescription only medicine sold or supplied;

(c)the name and address of the person requiring the prescription only medicine; and

(d)the nature of the emergency.

4.  Where the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine is by way of wholesale dealing, and no order or invoice, or copy thereof, relating to it has been retained under regulation 6(2)(c), or where the sale or supply, although a sale by retail or a supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, is one to which the restrictions imposed by section 58(2) do not apply by reason of an exemption given otherwise than by Article 6 of the Prescription Only Order (emergency supply), the particulars referred to in regulation 6(1)(a) are—

(a)the date on which the prescription only medicine was sold or supplied;

(b)the name, quantity and, except where it is apparent from the name, the pharmaceutical form and strength of the prescription only medicine sold or supplied;

(c)the name and address, trade, business or professional of the person to whom the prescription only medicine is sold or supplied; and

(d)the purpose for which the prescription only medicine is sold or supplied.

Regulation 8(3)

SCHEDULE 3PACK SIZES FOR CERTAIN VETERINARY DRUGS SOLD OR SUPPLIED BY RETAIL

Column 1Column 2
Substance contained in the veterinary drugNumber of dosage units or weight or volume of substance per container or package.
Aminonitrothiazole100 millilitres of solution or 50 capsules
Aspirin25 tablets or 25 sachets of powder
Bromhexine hydrochloride20 grammes
Paracetamol25 tablets
Phenylephrine hydrochloride15 millilitres
Potassium chlorate30 millilitres

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