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Medicines Act 1981

Dealings with medicines and medical devices - Exemptions

25: Exemptions for practitioners and others

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"Rules for doctors and nurses when giving or selling medicines"

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You can do certain things with medicines if you are an authorised prescriber. You can make a medicine for a particular patient, or sell them a medicine. You can also give a medicine to a patient. You have to follow the rules, even if you are an authorised prescriber. If a new medicine is not allowed to be distributed under section 20, there are extra rules. You can still sell or give the medicine to a patient, but only if you know who the patient is. The rules in this section apply, even if there are other rules in the Act. You have to follow all the rules in the Act and any regulations made under it, as well as the rules in this section.

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Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices
Exemptions

25Exemptions for practitioners and others

  1. An authorised prescriber may—

  2. manufacture, pack, and label a medicine that is specially prepared for, or intended for administration to, a particular patient of that authorised prescriber:
    1. sell or supply, or procure the sale or supply of, any medicine to any such patient or to a person who has the care of the patient:
      1. administer, or procure the administration of, any medicine to any such patient:
        1. at the request of another authorised prescriber, pack, and label a medicine that is specially prepared for, or intended for administration to, a particular patient of that other authorised prescriber:
          1. at the request of another authorised prescriber, sell or supply a medicine to that other authorised prescriber, or to a person who has the care of the patient:
            1. at the request of another authorised prescriber, administer a medicine to a particular patient of that other authorised prescriber.

              1. Despite subsection (1), in relation to any new medicine the distribution of which is prohibited under section 20,—

              2. paragraphs (a) and (d) of subsection (1) do not apply:
                1. paragraphs (b), (c), (e), and (f) of that subsection apply only for the purpose of enabling the medicine to be administered to a particular patient who is known and identifiable at the time when the medicine is sold or supplied to the authorised prescriber.

                  1. Subsection (1) applies despite sections 17 to 24, but is subject to the other provisions of this Act and any regulations made under this Act.

                  2. Repealed
                  Notes
                  • Section 25: substituted, on , by section 6 of the Medicines Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 117).
                  • Section 25(4): repealed, on , by section 8 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 50).