Singapore legislation
Section 29
Section 29
Medicinal products on prescription only
(1)
The Minister may by order specify descriptions or classes of medicinal products for the purposes of this section; and, in relation to any description or class so specified, the order must state which of the following are to be appropriate practitioners for the purposes of this section:
doctors;
dentists;
veterinary surgeons.
(2)
Subject to the following provisions of this section —
a person must not sell by retail, or supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, a medicinal product of a description, or falling within a class, specified in an order under this section except in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner;
a person must not administer (otherwise than to himself or herself) any such medicinal product unless the person is an appropriate practitioner or a person acting in accordance with the directions of an appropriate practitioner.
(3)
An order made by the Minister for the purposes of this section may provide —
that subsection (2)(a) or (b), or subsection (2)(a) and (b), has effect subject to any exemptions that may be specified in the order; or
that, for the purpose of subsection (2)(a), a medicinal product must not be taken to be supplied in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner unless the conditions that are prescribed by the order are fulfilled.
(4)
Any exemption conferred by an order in accordance with subsection (3)(a) may be conferred subject to such conditions or limitations as may be specified in the order.