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249.—(1) The holder of an authorisation of the kind referred to in paragraph (2) may not sell a prescription only medicine or a pharmacy medicine by way of wholesale dealing to a person who does not fall within a class specified in Schedule 22.
(2) Those authorisations are—
(a)a marketing authorisation;
(b)a certificate of registration;
(c)a traditional herbal registration; and
(d)an Article 126a authorisation.
(3) A person may not, in the course of a business consisting (wholly or partly) of manufacturing medicinal products or of selling medicinal products by way of wholesale dealing, sell a prescription only medicine or a pharmacy medicine by way of wholesale dealing to a person who does not fall within a class specified in Schedule 22.
(4) This regulation is subject to regulation 250.
250.—(1) This regulation makes provision for exceptions to regulation 249.
(2) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing a pharmacy medicine which is for the purpose of being administered to human beings in the course of a business to any person carrying on such a business.
(3) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing a pharmacy medicine to which a general sale exemption applies to any person who by virtue of that exemption may sell the pharmacy medicine by retail, or supply it in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, otherwise than by or under the supervision of a pharmacist.
(4) In paragraph (3) “general sale exemption” means an exemption from regulation 220 conferred by a provision of Chapter 3.
(5) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing to a person specified in column 1 of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 17 a prescription only medicine specified in relation to that person in column 2 of Parts 1 to 3 of that Schedule.
(6) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing to a registered optometrist a product that is a prescription only medicine by reason only that it contains one or more of the following substances—
(a)amethocaine hydrochloride;
(b)lidocaine hydrochloride;
(c)oxybuprocaine hydrochloride; or
(d)proxymetacaine hydrochloride.
(7) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing to an additional supply optometrist a product that is a prescription only medicine by reason only that it contains thymoxamine hydrochloride.
(8) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing to a registered dispensing optician a prescription only medicine that—
(a)is required for use by a registered optometrist or doctor attending the optician's practice; and
(b)contains one or more of the following substances—
(i)amethocaine hydrochloride,
(ii)chloramphenicol,
(iii)cyclopentolate hydrochloride,
(iv)fusidic acid,
(v)lidocaine hydrochloride,
(vi)oxybuprocaine hydrochloride,
(vii)proxymetacaine hydrochloride, and
(viii)tropicamide.
(9) A person may sell by way of wholesale dealing to a registered dispensing optician a prescription only medicine that—
(a)is required for use by the optician in the course of a professional practice as a contact lens specialist; and
(b)contains one or more of the following substances—
(i)lidocaine hydrochloride,
(ii)oxybuprocaine hydrochloride, and
(iii)proxymetacaine hydrochloride.
(10) In this regulation—
“additional supply optometrist” means a person who is registered as an optometrist, and against whose name particulars of the additional supply speciality have been entered in the relevant register;
“contact lens specialist” means a person who is a registered dispensing optician and against whose name particulars of the contact lens speciality have been entered in—
the register of dispensing opticians maintained under section 7(b) of the Opticians Act 1989; or
the register of visiting dispensing opticians from relevant European States maintained under section 8B(1)(b) of that Act.
251.—(1) A person may not sell a medicinal product that has been demanded by the purchaser by, or by express reference to, a particular name if—
(a)the name is a name at the head of the relevant monograph; and
(b)the product does not comply with the standard specified in that monograph.
(2) A person may not sell or supply a medicinal product in pursuance of a prescription given by a doctor or dentist in which the product required is described by, or by express reference to, a particular name if—
(a)the name is a name at the head of the relevant monograph; and
(b)the product does not comply with the standard specified in that monograph.
(3) A person may not sell or supply a medicinal product that has been offered or exposed for sale by, or by express reference to, a particular name if—
(a)the name is a name at the head of the relevant monograph; and
(b)the product does not comply with the standard specified in that monograph.
(4) If the particular name referred to in paragraph (1), (2) or (3) is that of an active ingredient of the product, the product does not comply with the standard specified in the relevant monograph if, in so far as it consists of that ingredient, it does not comply with that standard.
(5) See regulation 252 for the meaning of certain expressions used in this regulation.
252.—(1) Where, together with the particular name specified as described in paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of regulation 251, there was specified a particular edition of a particular publication, “the relevant monograph” in that paragraph means—
(a)the monograph (if any) headed by the name in that edition; or
(b)if there is no such monograph, the appropriate current monograph (if any) headed by that name.
(2) Where, together with the particular name specified as described in paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of regulation 251, there was specified a particular publication, but not an edition of that publication, “the relevant monograph” in that paragraph means—
(a)the monograph (if any) headed by the name in the current edition; or
(b)if there is no monograph of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), the appropriate current monograph (if any) headed by that name; or
(c)if there is no monograph of the kinds mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) or (b), the monograph headed by that name in the latest edition of the specified publication that contained a monograph headed by that name.
(3) Where no publication was specified with the particular name specified as described in paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of regulation 251, “the relevant monograph” in that paragraph means the appropriate current monograph (if any).
(4) In this regulation “publication” means—
(a)the British Pharmacopoeia; or
(b)a compendium published under Part 15 (British Pharmacopoeia).
(5) In this regulation “current” means current at the time when the medicinal product is demanded, described in a prescription or offered or exposed for sale (as the case may be).
(6) In this regulation “the appropriate current monograph”, in relation to a particular name, means—
(a)the monograph (if any) headed by that name in the current edition of the British Pharmacopoeia; or
(b)if there is no such monograph, the monograph (if any) headed by that name in the current edition of a compendium published under Part 15 (British Pharmacopoeia).
(7) For the purposes of regulation 251 and this regulation, any monograph in an edition of a publication must be construed in accordance with any general monograph or notice, or any appendix, note or other explanatory material, that is contained in that edition and applies to that monograph.
253.—(1) A person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business must, in respect of every sale or supply of a prescription only medicine, make or cause to be made an entry in a written or computerised record kept for that purpose.
(2) An entry required by paragraph (1)—
(a)must state the particulars specified in Schedule 23; and
(b)subject to paragraph (3), must be made—
(i)on the day of the sale or supply, or
(ii)if that is not reasonably practicable, on the day following that day.
(3) Where the sale or supply is made under regulation 224 (emergency sale etc by pharmacist: prescriber unable to provide prescription), the particulars specified in paragraph 2(e) and (f) of Schedule 23 may be entered on the day that the prescription is received.
(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) do not apply if any of the following apply—
(a)the sale or supply is in pursuance of a health prescription or a prescription for oral contraceptives;
(b)a separate record of the sale or supply is made in accordance with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 or the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002;
(c)the sale is by way of wholesale dealing and the order or invoice relating to the sale or a copy of the order or invoice is retained by the person lawfully conducting the retail pharmacy business who makes the sale;
(d)in Scotland, the sale or supply is to a doctor for use in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 45 of Schedule 5 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 M1 (provision of drugs, medicines and appliances for immediate treatment or personal administration);
(e)in Northern Ireland, the sale or supply is to a doctor for use in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 47 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 M2 (provision of drugs, medicines and appliances for immediate treatment or personal administration).
(5) A person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business must preserve for a period of two years beginning immediately after the relevant date—
(a)the record kept under paragraphs (1) to (3);
(b)a prescription in pursuance of which a prescription only medicine has been sold or supplied other than—
(i)a health prescription, or
(ii)a prescription for a [F1product subject to special medical prescription];
(c)an order or invoice referred to in paragraph (4)(c) or a copy of the order or invoice; and
(d)orders referred to in column 3 of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 17, except orders referred to in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of that Schedule.
(6) In paragraph (5) “the relevant date” means—
(a)in relation to sub-paragraph (a), the date on which the last entry is made in the record;
(b)in relation to sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d)—
(i)where the prescription only medicine was sold or supplied in accordance with a repeatable prescription, the date of the final sale or supply pursuant to that prescription, and
(ii)otherwise, the date on which the prescription only medicine was sold or supplied.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 253(5)(b)(ii) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.3.2014) by The Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/490), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(h) and words in reg. 253(5)(b)(ii) substituted (N.I.) (31.3.2014) by The Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.R. 2014/323), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(h)
Marginal Citations
M2S.R. (NI) 2004 No. 140.
254.—(1) A person may not treat a patient with an advanced therapy medicinal product if there is not a system in place for patient and product traceability in relation to such treatment containing sufficient detail to enable the linking of the product to the patient who received it and vice versa.
(2) A person may not treat a patient with an advanced therapy medicinal product if the treatment involves a product which contains human cells or tissues and the traceability system referred to in paragraph (1) is not complementary to, and compatible with, the requirements laid down in—
(a)Articles 8 and 14 of Directive 2004/23/EC, as regards human cells and tissues other than blood cells; and
(b)Articles 14 and 24 of Directive 2002/98/EC, as regards blood cells.
(3) It is a defence to an offence of breach of paragraph (1) or, as the case may be, paragraph (2) if the person who treats a patient was assured in writing before the treatment was given that a system of traceability as described in paragraph (1) or, as the case may be, paragraph (2) was in place in relation to the treatment given by that person.
(4) A person may not give an assurance in writing to a person (“P”) who treats a patient with an advanced therapy medicinal product that a system of traceability as described in paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) is in place in relation to treatment with an advanced therapy medicinal product given by P if no such system is in place.
255.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the person breaches any of the following provisions of this Part—
(a)regulation 214(1) (prohibition on sale etc of prescription only medicine otherwise than in accordance with prescription from appropriate practitioner);
(b)regulation 214(2) (prohibition on parenteral administration of prescription only medicine otherwise than by or under directions of appropriate practitioner);
(c)regulation 220 (prohibition on sale etc of medicinal product not subject to general sale otherwise than by or under supervision of pharmacist);
(d)regulation 249 (prohibition on sale of prescription only medicine or pharmacy medicine by way of wholesale dealing to person not within Schedule 22);
(e)regulation 251 (compliance with standards specified in certain publications); or
(f)regulation 254 (prohibitions concerning traceability of treatment with advanced therapy medicinal products).
(2) A person is guilty of an offence if the person—
(a)is an appropriate practitioner by virtue of regulation 214; and
(b)gives a prescription or directions in respect of a medicinal product in relation to which the person is not an appropriate practitioner.
(3) A person is guilty of an offence if the person gives a prescription or directions or administers a medicinal product without meeting the conditions for doing so that apply to that person by virtue of regulation 215 (conditions to be met by supplementary prescriber).
(4) A person (“P”) is guilty of an offence if—
(a)P has in P's possession a medicinal product to which regulation 214(1) applies; and
(b)P intends to supply it otherwise than in accordance with a prescription of an appropriate practitioner.
(5) A person guilty of an offence under any of paragraphs (1) to (4) is liable—
(a)on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or
(b)on conviction on indictment to a fine, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.
(6) A person is guilty of an offence if the person breaches—
(a)regulation 221 (prohibition on sale of medicinal product subject to general sale otherwise than in accordance with that regulation); or
(b)regulation 222 (prohibition on sale by automatic machine of medicinal product not subject to general sale).
(7) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (6) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(8) A person is guilty of an offence if the person breaches regulation 253 (record-keeping requirements for persons carrying on a retail pharmacy business).
(9) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (8) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.
256.—(1) A court before which a person (“P”) is convicted of any offence under regulation 255(8) may order that P is disqualified from using the premises where that offence was committed for a period not exceeding 2 years if the following conditions are met.
(2) Condition A is that the offence was committed in a retail pharmacy business.
(3) Condition B is that the period of disqualification relates to the future use of the premises as a retail pharmacy business.
(4) Condition C is that the enforcement authority has made an application to the court for such an order.
(5) Condition D is that the court thinks it appropriate to grant an order having regard—
(a)to the gravity of the offence of which P has been convicted as mentioned in the preceding subsection;
(b)to the unsatisfactory nature of the premises; or
(c)to any offences under regulation 255(8) of which P has previously been convicted.
(6) Condition E is that the enforcement authority has not less than 14 days before the date of the hearing given P notice in writing of their intention to apply for such an order.
(7) If P uses the premises in respect of which an order under this regulation is in force for the purposes of a retail pharmacy business, P shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(8) At any time after the end of the period of six months beginning with the date on which an order under this regulation comes into force, P may apply to the court to revoke the order or to vary it by reducing the period of disqualification.
(9) On any application made under paragraph (8) of this regulation the court may—
(a)revoke or vary the order if it thinks it proper to do so having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including in particular the conduct of the applicant and any improvement in the state of the premises to which the order relates; or
(b)refuse to revoke or vary the order.
(10) If an application made by P under paragraph (8) is refused, no further application under that paragraph may be made within the period of three months beginning with the date of the refusal.
(11) The court determining an application under this regulation shall have power to order the applicant to pay the whole or any part of the costs of the application.
(12) In the application of this regulation to Scotland, for reference to an enforcement authority and to costs there shall be substituted respectively references to the procurator fiscal and to expenses.
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