Prospective
(1)In section 10 of the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67) (which provides for exemptions for pharmacists in relation to certain dealings with medicinal products), after subsection (7) insert—
“(7A)The Health Ministers may make regulations prescribing conditions which must be complied with if a thing is to be considered for the purposes of this section as done under the supervision of a pharmacist.
(7B)Conditions prescribed under subsection (7A) may relate to supervision in the case where the pharmacist is not at the place where the thing is being done, and in that case the thing is not to be so considered if no such conditions are prescribed.
(7C)In any case, compliance with any applicable conditions is sufficient for the thing to be so considered.”
(2)In section 52 of that Act (sale or supply of medicines not on general sale list)—
(a)the existing text is to be subsection (1),
(b)after that subsection insert—
“(2)The Health Ministers may make regulations prescribing conditions which must be complied with if a transaction mentioned in subsection (1)(c) is to be considered for the purposes of this section as done under the supervision of a pharmacist.
(3)Conditions prescribed under subsection (2) may relate to supervision in the case where the pharmacist is not on the premises, and in that case the transaction is not to be so considered if no such conditions are prescribed.
(4)In any case, compliance with any applicable conditions is sufficient for the transaction to be so considered.”