SCHEDULE 5EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN PERSONS FROM SECTION 58(2) OF THE ACT
PART IIIEXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTION ON ADMINISTRATION Column 1
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.7.2011) by The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(a)(i)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 1 omitted (1.7.2011) by virtue of The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(a)(ii)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 1 inserted (17.11.2006) by The Medicines for Human Use (Administration and Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2807), arts. 1(1), 4(4)(b)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 substituted (13.2.1998) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/108), arts. 1, 5(2)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 1 inserted (16.9.1998) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 3) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2081), arts. 1(1), 4(b)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.7.2011) by The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(a)(iii)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 2 inserted (1.7.2011) by The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(b)(i)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 2 substituted (1.6.2010) by The Medicines for Human Use (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1136), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(b)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 2 substituted (1.7.2011) by The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(b)(ii)(aa)
Word in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 2 omitted (1.7.2011) by virtue of The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(b)(ii)(bb)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 2 substituted (1.7.2011) by The Medicines (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1327), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(b)(iii)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 added (16.11.2000) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2899), arts. 1(1), 5(a)
Word in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 substituted for words (9.7.2003) by The Health Professions Order 2001 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1590), art. 1, Sch. para. 21(3)(b)(ii)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 inserted (16.11.2000) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2899), arts. 1(1), 5(b)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 added (17.1.2011) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2998), arts. 1(1), 3
Word in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 inserted (19.11.2004) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2693), arts. 1(1), 6
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 inserted (16.11.2000) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2899), arts. 1(1), 5(c)
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 inserted (1.6.1998) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1178), arts. 1(1), 3
Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 9 inserted (18.5.2004) by The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1189), arts. 1(1), 4
Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 10 added (21.12.2009) by The Medicines (Exemptions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3062), arts. 1(1), 3(2)
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Persons exempted | Prescription only medicines to which the exemption applies | Conditions |
F101. Registered chiropodists F15or podiatrists against whose names are recorded in the relevant register annotations signifying that they are qualified to use the medicines specified in column 2.. |
| 1. The administration shall be only in the course of their professional practice F17and where the medicine includes a combination of substances listed under item 1 in column 2, those substances shall not be combined by the chiropodist or podiatrist. |
2. Registered midwives F18and student midwives. |
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3. Persons who are authorized as members of a group by a group authority granted under regulations 8(3) or 9(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations to supply a controlled drug by way of administration only. | 3. Prescription only medicines that are specified in the group authority. | 3. The administration shall be subject to such conditions and in such circumstances and to such extent as may be specified in the group authority. |
4. The owner or master of a ship which does not carry a doctor on board as part of her complement. | 4. All prescription only medicines that are for parenteral administration. | 4. The administration shall be only so far as is necessary for the treatment of persons on the ship. |
5. Persons operating an occupational health scheme. | 5. Prescription only medicines for parenteral administration sold or supplied to the person operating an occupational health scheme in response to an order in writing signed by a doctor or a registered nurse. |
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6. The operator or commander of an aircraft. | 6. Prescription only medicines for parenteral administration which have been sold or supplied to the operator or commander of the aircraft in response to an order in writing signed by a doctor. | 6. The administration shall be only so far as is necessary for the immediate treatment of sick or injured persons on the aircraft and shall be in accordance with the written instructions of a doctor as to the circumstances in which prescription only medicines of the description in question are to be used on the aircraft. |
7. Persons who are, and at 11th February 1982 were, persons customarily administering medicinal products to human beings by parenteral administration in the course of a business in the field of osteopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture or other similar field except chiropody. | 7. Medicinal products that are prescription only medicines by reason only that they fall within the class specified in article 3(c) (products for parenteral administration). | 7. The person administering the prescription only medicine shall have been requested by or on behalf of the person to whom it is administered and in that person’s presence to use his own judgement as to the treatment required. |
8. Persons employed as qualified first-aid personnel on offshore installations. | 8. All prescription only medicines that are for parenteral administration. | 8. The administration shall be only so far as is necessary for the treatment of persons on the installation. |
9. Persons who hold a certificate of proficiency in ambulance paramedic skills issued by, or with the approval of, the Secretary of State F4or persons who are F7registered paramedics. |
| 9. The administration shall be only for the immediate, necessary treatment of sick or injured persons and in the case of a prescription only medicine containing Heparin Sodium shall be only for the purpose of cannula flushing. |
F1210 . Persons (“P”) who are members of Her Majesty’s armed forces. | 10. All prescription only medicines. | 10. The administration shall be—
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Words in Sch. 5 Pt. 3 para. 1 substituted (17.11.2006) by The Medicines for Human Use (Administration and Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2807), arts. 1(1), 4(4)(a)