Health Products (Therapeutic Products) Regulations 2016 · As enacted · Part 3 · Supply of Therapeutic Products
14. Restrictions on supply by retail sale of codeine cough preparations
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A qualified practitioner or qualified pharmacist who supplies by retail sale any codeine cough preparation must not supply more than the following to any individual within a period of 7 days:
where codeine cough preparations are supplied to the individual in liquid form only — an aggregate amount of 240 ml of codeine cough preparations;
where codeine cough preparations are supplied to the individual in solid form only or in both liquid and solid forms — an aggregate amount of 355 mg of codeine (calculated as codeine base) contained in the codeine cough preparations supplied.
A qualified practitioner or qualified pharmacist who supplies by retail sale any codeine cough preparation must, on each occasion of the supply of the codeine cough preparation to an individual, provide professional counselling on the use of the codeine cough preparation.
A qualified practitioner who supplies by retail sale any codeine cough preparation must, on each occasion of the supply of the codeine cough preparation to an individual, in addition to complying with regulation 16, record the purpose of the treatment for which the codeine cough preparation was supplied.
Subregulation 1
A qualified practitioner or qualified pharmacist who supplies by retail sale any codeine cough preparation must not supply more than the following to any individual within a period of 7 days:
where codeine cough preparations are supplied to the individual in liquid form only — an aggregate amount of 240 ml of codeine cough preparations;
where codeine cough preparations are supplied to the individual in solid form only or in both liquid and solid forms — an aggregate amount of 355 mg of codeine (calculated as codeine base) contained in the codeine cough preparations supplied.
Subregulation 2
A qualified practitioner or qualified pharmacist who supplies by retail sale any codeine cough preparation must, on each occasion of the supply of the codeine cough preparation to an individual, provide professional counselling on the use of the codeine cough preparation.
Subregulation 3
A qualified practitioner who supplies by retail sale any codeine cough preparation must, on each occasion of the supply of the codeine cough preparation to an individual, in addition to complying with regulation 16, record the purpose of the treatment for which the codeine cough preparation was supplied.