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

Pack size on retail sale or supply of certain medicinal products on a general sale list

8.—(1) The conditions specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 53 (sale or supply of medicinal products on a general sale list) as conditions in accordance with which a business, so far as concerns the sale or supply of medicinal products, must be carried on.

(2) Where a medicinal product for human use containing aloxiprin, aspirin, paracetamol or salicylamide is sold by retail in the course of a business elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy or is so offered or exposed for sale by retail or so supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, the product shall be presented for sale in a separate and individual container or package containing—

(a) in the case of effervescent tablets, not more than 30 tablets;

(b) in the case of tablets that are not effervescent, not more than 25 tablets; and

(c) in the case of powder or granules, not more than 10 sachets.

(3) Where a veterinary drug containing a substance listed in column 1 of Schedule 3 is sold by retail in the course of a business elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy or is so offered or exposed for sale by retail or so supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, the veterinary drug shall be presented for sale in a separate and individual container or package containing not more than such quantity of capsules, tablets or powder, and not more than such volume or weight of the substance, as may be specified in column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that substance.