S.I. No. 324/1952:

MEDICAL PREPARATIONS (CORTISONE AND A.C.T.H.) REGULATIONS, 1952.

MEDICAL PREPARATIONS (CORTISONE AND A.C.T.H.) REGULATIONS, 1952.

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 orders as follows :--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Preparations (Cortisone and A.C.T.H.) Regulations, 1952.

2. In these Regulations--

"the Minister" means the Minister for Health; "controlled preparation" means--

(a) the substance known as Cortisone or 11--dehydro--17--hydroxycorticosterone;

(b) the substance known as A.C.T.H. (being the adrenocorticotrophic hormone of the anterior pituitary gland);

and includes any preparation containing either of these substances;

"medical prescription" means a written prescription for a controlled preparation which is--

(a) signed and dated by a registered medical practitioner whose address is written on the prescription, and

(b) issued by that medical practitioner to a person, whose name and address is recorded thereon, prescribing the supply of a specified quantity of a controlled preparation to such person;

"veterinary prescription" means a written prescription for a controlled preparation which is--

(a) signed and dated by a registered veterinary surgeon whose address is written on the prescription, and

(b) issued by that veterinary surgeon for veterinary purposes to a person whose name and address is recorded thereon, prescribing the supply of a specified quantity of a controlled preparation to such person ;

"sale" includes the offering or keeping for sale.

3. Articles 4 and 5 of these Regulations shall not apply to the sale of a controlled preparation--

(a) to a pharmaceutical chemist, a dispensing chemist and druggist or a registered druggist;

(b) to a hospital or similar institution, to a local authority, to the Medical Research Council of Ireland or to a registered medical practitioner;

(c) to the Veterinary College of Ireland, to the Veterinary Research Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture or to a registered veterinary surgeon.

(d) to a person engaged in the business of wholesale dealing in medical preparations or

(e) to any other person authorised in that behalf by the Minister.

4. No person other than a pharmaceutical chemist, a dispensing chemist and druggist or a registered druggist shall sell a controlled preparation.

5. (1) A pharmaceutical chemist or dispensing chemist and druggist shall not sell a controlled preparation by retail except in the dispensing of a medical prescription or veterinary prescription which has not already been dispensed ;

(2) A registered druggist shall not sell a controlled preparation by retail except in the dispensing of a veterinary prescription which has not already been dispensed ;

(3) A pharmaceutical chemist or dispensing chemist and druggist who has dispensed a medical prescription or a veterinary prescription or a registered druggist who has dispensed a veterinary prescription shall write prominently on the prescription the word " dispensed " and the date on which it was dispensed, shall retain the prescription in his possession for at least two years and shall then destroy it.

(4) A pharmaceutical chemist or dispensing chemist and druggist shall make available any medical prescriptions or veterinary prescriptions and a registered druggist shall make available any veterinary prescriptions in his possession for inspection by authorised officers of the Minister and by inspectors of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.

6. Nothing in these Regulations shall affect--

(a) the supply of a controlled preparation by a registered medical practitioner to a person under his care or by a registered veterinary surgeon in the case of veterinary treatment or

(b) the sale of a controlled preparation intended solely for external use.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this Eighteenth day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-two.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Health.