Singapore legislation
Regulation 29
Regulation 29
Supply of medicines to outpatients from certain hospitals, etc.
Subregulation 1
The provisions of the Act and of these Rules shall not apply to —
any medicine for the treatment of human ailments dispensed from a hospital, infirmary or dispensary maintained by any public authority, or out of public funds, or by a charity; or (b)any medicine for the treatment of animals supplied from a veterinary hospital which is under the superintendence of a veterinary surgeon, but the requirements contained in paragraphs (2) to (5) shall be satisfied in relation thereto.
Subregulation 2
The medicine shall only be supplied by, or on and in accordance with a prescription of, a medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment, or a dentist for the purposes of dental treatment, or a veterinary surgeon for the purposes of animal treatment.
Subregulation 3
In a case where a substance included in the First Schedule is supplied, a record shall be kept on the premises in such a way that there can readily be traced at any time during a period of 2 years after the date on which the substance was supplied the following particulars: (a)the name and quantity of the poison supplied; (b)the date on which the poison was supplied; (c)the name and address of the person to whom the poison was supplied; and (d)the name of the person who supplied the poison or who gave the prescription upon which it was supplied.
Subregulation 4
The container of the medicine shall be labelled —
with the name and address of the hospital, infirmary, dispensary or institution from which it was supplied; (b)except in the case of a medicine made up ready for internal treatment, with the word “Poison”; and (c)in the case of a poison supplied from a veterinary hospital, with the words “For animal treatment only”.
Subregulation 5
The container of a poison shall —
be impervious to the poison and sufficiently stout to prevent leakage arising from the ordinary risks of handling and transport; and (b)where the poison is a liquid of a quantity of less than 2.5 litres, not being a liquid made up ready to be taken for the internal treatment of human ailments and not being a local anaesthetic for injection in the treatment of human ailments, be a bottle the outer surface of which is fluted vertically with ribs or grooves recognisable by touch.