S.I. No. 272/1971:

MEDICAL PREPARATIONS (CONTROL OF SALE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 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 the health services for preparations specified in the Medical Preparations (Control of Sale) Regulations, 1966. The Regulations also provided for the inclusion of licentiates of Apothecaries Hall in the category of persons who can sell these preparations.