Singapore legislation
Regulation 13
Regulation 13
Supply by retail sale of pharmacy-only medicine
Subregulation 1
A person must not supply by retail sale any pharmacy-only medicine unless —
the supply is made at or from a licensed retail pharmacy in accordance with regulation 3(1) of the Health Products (Licensing of Retail Pharmacies) Regulations 2016 (G.N. No. S 330/2016);
the supply is made by a healthcare service licensee to a patient of the healthcare service licensee, and is in accordance with the written instructions of a qualified practitioner or collaborative prescribing practitioner who is a personnel of the healthcare service licensee; or
the following requirements are satisfied:
the person is a qualified practitioner or collaborative prescribing practitioner, or a person acting in accordance with the oral or written instructions of a qualified practitioner or collaborative prescribing practitioner;
the supply is made to a patient under the care of the qualified practitioner or collaborative prescribing practitioner.
Subregulation 2
A person who supplies by retail sale any pharmacy-only medicine must keep, at the premises where or from which the medicine is supplied, a record of every such supply, and the record must contain all of the following particulars in relation to each supply:
the date of the supply;
the name, identity card or other identification document number, and contact details, of the person to whom the pharmacy-only medicine is supplied;
the name, strength and total amount of pharmacy-only medicine to be supplied;
the dosage, and the frequency and purpose of the treatment for which the supply is made.
Subregulation 3
The record required under paragraph (2) must be made on the day on which the pharmacy-only medicine is supplied or, if that is not reasonably practicable, within 24 hours after that day, and must be kept for a period of at least 2 years after the date of the supply.
Subregulation 4
A supplier of a pharmacy-only medicine by retail sale must make available for inspection by the Authority at all reasonable times any record made under paragraph (2).
Subregulation 5
This regulation does not apply to the supply of any pharmacy-only medicine by administration to, or application in, any person in the course of any diagnosis, treatment or test.