Singapore legislation

Regulation 44

of Health Products (Therapeutic Products) Regulations 2016

Regulation 44

Submission of benefit-risk evaluation reports

Subregulation 1

The Authority may require any registrant of a therapeutic product to submit, within the timelines specified by the Authority, a benefit-risk evaluation report relating to the therapeutic product.

Subregulation 2

Where the Authority has not specified any timelines within which a benefit-risk evaluation report is required to be submitted, a registrant of a therapeutic product who is required by the Authority to submit such a report must submit the report —

(a)

for an initial period of 2 years, at intervals of 6 months commencing from either the date of registration of the therapeutic product, or its international birth date; and

(b)

annually, for the next 3 years.

Subregulation 3

A person who fails to provide a benefit-risk evaluation report —

(a)

as required by the Authority under paragraph (1); or

(b)

within the timelines stipulated under paragraph (2),shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Subregulation 4

In paragraph (2)(a), “international birth date”, for a therapeutic product, means the date of the first marketing approval granted to any person for the sale of the therapeutic product in any country in the world.