Singapore legislation
Regulation 15
Regulation 15
Additional restrictions on sale of certain poisons
Subregulation 1
It shall not be lawful to sell any poison included in the Third Schedule, except on and in accordance with a prescription given by a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon in a form complying with the requirements of this rule.
Subregulation 2
This rule shall apply to the sale of such poisons notwithstanding that it consists of or is an ingredient of a medicine dispensed or supplied in the circumstances set out in section 7 (1) (b) and (c) of the Act, and in accordance with that section, but shall not apply to the sale of any such poison in the circumstances set out in section 8 of the Act.
Subregulation 3
For the purposes of this rule, a prescription shall —
be in writing and be signed by the person giving it with his usual signature and be dated by him; (b)specify the address of the person giving it; (c)specify the name and address of the person for whose treatment it is given or, if the prescription is given by a veterinary surgeon, of the person to whom the medicine is to be delivered; (d)have written thereon, if given by a dentist, the words, “For dental treatment only” or, if given by a veterinary surgeon, the words “For animal treatment only”; and (e)indicate the total amount of medicine to be supplied and the dose to be taken.
Subregulation 4
The person dispensing the prescription shall comply with the following requirements: (a)the prescription shall not be dispensed more than once unless the prescriber has stated thereon that it may be dispensed more than once; (b)if the prescription contains a direction that it may be dispensed a stated number of times but no interval is specified, it shall not be dispensed more than once in 3 days, and if the intervals are specified without direction as to the number of times the prescription may be dispensed, it shall not be dispensed more than 3 times; (c)at the time of dispensing there shall be noted on the face of the prescription above the signature of the prescriber the name and address of the seller and the date on which the prescription is dispensed; and (d)in the case of a prescription to be repeated it shall be retained after being dispensed the second or third time, as the case may be, by the last person dispensing the prescription.
Subregulation 5
Notwithstanding paragraph (4)(b), in an emergency a pharmacist may supply a poison included in the Third Schedule on the verbal instructions of a medical practitioner who has undertaken to give a prescription (or a written order where he is a medical practitioner in a hospital) within the next 24 hours.
Subregulation 6
For the purpose of this rule, “dentist” shall not include any dentist whose name does not appear in the first division of the Register of Dentists maintained and kept under section 13(1)(a) of the Dental Registration Act 1999.