The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997

Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions

10.—[F1(1)] [F2A medicinal product is not a prescription only medicine for the purposes of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 by virtue of Article 5(1) if it is] a medicinal product which is not for parenteral administration and which consists of or contains, any of the substances listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 [F3or in Schedule 2], only one or more unit preparation of such substances, if–

(a)each such unit preparation has been diluted to at least one part in a million (6x), and the person selling, supplying or administering the medicinal product has been requested by or on behalf of a particular person and in that person’s presence to use his own judgment as to the treatment required; or

(b)each such unit preparation has been diluted to at least one part in a million million (6c).

[F4(2) [F2A medicinal product is not a prescription only medicine for the purposes of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 by virtue of Article 5(1) if it is] a medicinal product which is not for parenteral administration and which consists of or contains solely one or more unit preparations of the following substances—

  • Aconite

  • Arsenic Trioxide

  • Belladonna Herb

  • Ignatia Bean

  • Nux Vomica Seed,

if each such unit preparation has been diluted to at least one part in a million (6x)]

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