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Medicines Act 1981

Dealings with medicines and medical devices - Exemptions

32: Exemptions for natural therapists and others

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"Some people can make and sell certain medicines without following all the rules."

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You can make and sell some medicines if they are not prescription medicines, restricted medicines, or pharmacy-only medicines. You must use your own judgment to decide the treatment required when someone asks you to make a medicine for them. This rule applies to natural therapists and other people, but you still have to follow other parts of the Medicines Act 1981 and any regulations made under it, except for sections 17 and 20 to 24.

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Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices
Exemptions

32Exemptions for natural therapists and others

  1. Notwithstanding sections 17 and 20 to 24 or anything in any licence, but subject to the other provisions of this Act and to any regulations made under this Act, any natural therapist or other person may manufacture, pack, label, sell by retail, or supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, any medicine that neither is nor contains—

  2. a prescription medicine; or
    1. a restricted medicine; or
      1. a pharmacy-only medicine,—
          1. for administration to a particular person after being requested by or on behalf of that person to use his own judgment as to the treatment required.