Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1830

      The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


1997 No. 1830

MEDICINES

The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997

  Made 25th July 1997 
  Laid before Parliament 28th July 1997 
  Coming into force 18th August 1997 


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1. Citation, commencement and interpretation
2. Appropriate practitioners
3. Medicinal products on prescription only
4. Duration of special provisions in relation to new medicinal products
5. Exempt medicinal products
6. Circumstances in which controlled drugs and medicinal products authorized by the European Community are not prescription only medicines
7. Exemption for parenteral administration in an emergency to human beings of certain prescription only medicines
8. Exemptions for emergency sale or supply
9. Exemption for non-parenteral administration to human beings
10. Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions
11. Exemptions for certain persons
12. Exemption for sale or supply in hospitals
13. Exemption in cases involving another's default
14. Exemption in the case of a forged prescription
15. Prescriptions
16. Revocations

  SCHEDULE 1 SUBSTANCES WHICH IF INCLUDED IN MEDICINAL PRODUCTS MAKE THOSE PRODUCTS PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTIONS ON THE SALE AND SUPPLY OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES

  SCHEDULE 2

  SCHEDULE 3 DESCRIPTIONS AND CLASSES OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES IN RELATION TO WHICH APPROPRIATE NURSE PRACTITIONERS ARE APPROPRIATE PRACTITIONERS

  SCHEDULE 4 SUBSTANCES NOT TO BE CONTAINED IN A PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINE SOLD OR SUPPLIED UNDER THE EXEMPTION CONFERRED BY ARTICLE 8(3)

  SCHEDULE 5 EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN PERSONS FROM SECTION 58(2) OF THE ACT

PART I - EXEMPTION FROM RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OR SUPPLY

PART II - EXEMPTIONS FROM THE RESTRICTION ON SUPPLY

PART III - FROM RESTRICTION ON ADMINISTRATION

  SCHEDULE 6 ORDERS REVOKED

 Explanatory Note
 
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