Medical Preparations (Control of Sale) (Amendment) Regulations, 1971
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Citation | IR SI 272/1971 |
Year | 1971 |
S.I. No. 272 of 1971. |
MEDICAL PREPARATIONS (CONTROL OF SALE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1971. |
The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 65 of the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947) hereby makes the following Regulations :— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Preparations (Control of Sale) (Amendment) Regulations, 1971. 2. In these Regulations— |
"the Act" means the Health Act, 1970 (No. 1 of 1970); |
"full eligibility" has the meaning assigned to it in section 45 of the Act; |
"health prescription" means— |
(a) a prescription issued on behalf of a person with full eligibility by a registered medical practitioner who has entered into an agreement with a health board to provide a general practitioner service under the Act for that person; |
(b) a prescription issued by a registered medical practitioner on behalf of a person for whom a health board has made arrangements for the supply of drugs, medicines, or medical or surgical appliances in accordance with section 59 (3) of the Act; |
"licentiate of Apothecaries Hall" has the same meaning as in the Pharmacy Act (Ireland) 1875; |
"Principal Regulations" means the Medical Preparations (Control of Sale) Regulations, 1966 ( S.I. No. 261 of 1966 ). 3. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1971. 4. The words "unless such prescription is a health prescription" shall be inserted before the word "shall" where that word secondly occurs in Article 7 (i) of the Principal Regulations. 5. (a) The words "a licentiate of Apothecaries Hall" shall be inserted after the words "dispensing chemist and druggist" in Article 4 (1) (a); Article 7 where they first occur; Article 7 (i); Article 7 (j) and Article 9 (2) of the Principal Regulations. |
(b) The words "a licentiate of Apothecaries Hall keeping open shop for the dispensing or compounding of medical prescriptions" shall be inserted after the words "dispensing chemist and druggist" in Article 5 of the Principal Regulations. |
(c) The words "or a licentiate of Apothecaries Hall" shall be inserted after the words "dispensing chemist and druggist" in Article 6 (1) of the Principal Regulations. |
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this |
23rd day or September, 1971. |
ERSKINE CHILDERS, |
Minister for Health. |
EXPLANATORY NOTE. |
The effect of these Regulations is to exempt retail pharmacists from the obligation to retain official prescriptions issued under... |
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