Part III Further Provisions relating to Dealings with Medicinal Products

Exemptions from sections 52 and 53

55F1Exemptions for doctors and dentists etc

(1)

The restrictions imposed by sections 52 and 53 of this Act do not apply to the sale, offer for sale, or supply of a medicinal product—

(a)

by a doctor or dentist to a patient of his or to a person under whose care such a patient is, or

(b)

in the course of the business of a hospital or health centre, where the product is sold, offered for sale or supplied for the purpose of being administered (whether in the hospital or health centre or elsewhere) in accordance with the directions of a doctor or dentist.

(2)

Those restrictions also do not apply—

(a)

to the sale or supply of a medicinal product of a description, or falling within a class, specified in an order made by the F2... Ministers for the purposes of this paragraph, where the product is sold or supplied by a registered nurse in the course of her professional practice, or

(b)

to the sale or supply of a medicinal product of a description, or falling within a class, specified in an order made by the F3Ministers for the purposes of this paragraph, where the product either is sold or supplied by a F4registered midwife in the course of her professional practice or is delivered or administered by such a midwife on being supplied in pursuance of arrangements made by F5the Secretary of State or the Ministry of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland.

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(4)

Expressions to which a meaning is assigned by subsection (2) of section 11 of this Act have the same meanings in this section as in that section.