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Medicines Act 1981

Dealings with medicines and medical devices - Exemptions

29: Exemption for medicine required by specified practitioners

You could also call this:

"Some medical workers can get medicine to give to patients without extra checks."

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You can supply medicine to a specified practitioner if they ask for it to treat a patient. They can give the medicine to the patient. A specified practitioner is a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, or pharmacist prescriber, who is a pharmacist allowed to prescribe medicine under the Medicines (Designated Pharmacist Prescribers) Regulations 2013. You can also supply the medicine to a pharmacy to give to the patient.

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Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices
Exemptions

29Exemption for medicine required by specified practitioners

  1. Sections 20 and 24 do not prevent—

  2. a person supplying to a specified practitioner, on the request of the specified practitioner, any medicine that the specified practitioner requires for the treatment of a patient currently under their care; or
    1. a person supplying to a pharmacy practice a medicine described in paragraph (a) for dispensing by the pharmacy practice to the patient; or
      1. a specified practitioner administering a medicine described in paragraph (a) to the patient.

        1. In this section,—

          pharmacist prescriber means a pharmacist who is a designated prescriber under the Medicines (Designated Pharmacist Prescribers) Regulations 2013

            specified practitioner means—

            1. a medical practitioner; or
              1. a nurse practitioner; or
                1. a pharmacist prescriber.

                2. Repealed
                Compare
                • 1969 No 7 s 16
                Notes
                • Section 29 heading: amended, on , by section 11(1) of the Medicines Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 66).
                • Section 29(1): replaced, on , by section 11(2) of the Medicines Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 66).
                • Section 29(2): replaced, on , by section 11(2) of the Medicines Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 66).
                • Section 29(3): repealed, on , by section 11(2) of the Medicines Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 66).