CO129-511-2 Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance- 1928 20-4-1928 - 20-4-1928 — Page 17

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(c) The following proviso is inserted at the end of paragraph (4)

Provided that the provisions of paragraph (4) shall not apply to any drug supplied to a person for his use by a registered medical practitioner or in accordance with a prescription if that person was at the time of the supply in course of receiving treatment from another registered medical practitioner in res- pect of addiction to any of the drugs or otherwise and of being supplied with any of the drugs by or on a prescription given by that last mentioned practitioner, and did not disclose the fact to the first mentioned practitioner before the drug was supplied to him.

VI. Paragraph (1) of Regulation 8 is amended by the substitution of the words any drug to which these regulations apply" for the words "any morphine, cocaine, ecgonine, diamorphine or their respective salts or any medicinal opium" in the first, second and third lines thereof.

VII. Regulation 9 is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof :-

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Every registered medical practitioner, registered dentist and approved veterinary surgeon shall, if not otherwise required to do so under the provisions of this regulation, enter or cause to be entered in a register kept for the sole purpose, in respect of each supply of each of the drugs purchased or otherwise obtained by him, the particulars shewn in Schedule I to these regulations.

VIII. Regulation 11 is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end of the regulation :-

Every person authorized in pursuance of this regulation to carry on the business of manufacturing, selling or distributing the drugs shall keep the same in a locked receptacle of which the key shall be kept by himself or a qualified assistant.

IX. Regulation 13 is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:-

When such person is a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist or approved veterinary surgeon the Superintendent may also, by notice given in the like manner, direct that the exception in Regula- tion 4 in respect of drugs lawfully dispensed in pursuance of a prescrip- tion by a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist or approved veterinary surgeon shall not apply in respect of prescriptions given by such practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon as aforesaid.

X. The following Regulations are inserted immediately after Regulation 13:

13A. If the Superintendent is of opinion that there is reason to think that a registered medical practitioner may be supplying, administering or prescribing any of the drugs either to or for himself or to or for other persons otherwise than as required for the purpose of medical treatment, or that any registered dentist may be supplying, administering or pres- cribing any of the drugs either to or for himself or to or for other persons otherwise than as required for the purpose of dental treatment, or that any approved veterinary surgeon may be supplying, administer- ing or prescribing any of the drugs otherwise than as required for the purpose of animal treatment, he may, with the consent of the Colonial Secretary, refer the case to the Medical Board for examination and con- sideration, and if the Medical Board so recommend the Superintendent may by notice in the Gazette withdraw the authorization of such person to be in possession of or to supply the. drugs and may direct that the exception in Regulation 4 in respect of drugs lawfully dispensed in pursuance of a prescription given by a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist or approved veterinary surgeon shall not apply in respect of prescriptions given by such person as aforesaid.

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