Medicines Act 1981

Dealings with medicines and medical devices - Miscellaneous provisions

45: Records

You could also call this:

"Keeping Medicine Business Records Safe and Available"

You must keep records if you make, pack, or sell medicines as part of your business. You have to keep these records in a safe place at your workplace. You need to keep them for a certain amount of time. You have to let certain officers or constables look at and copy your records at any time. You also have to give them more information about your medicine dealings if they ask for it. This is so they can check you are following the rules. If you do not keep records or let officers look at them, you can get in trouble. You can also get in trouble if you stop officers from looking at your records.

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Topics:

Health and wellbeing > Public healthBusiness > Industry rules

44: Containers and packages of medicines, or

"Medicine must be in safe containers with correct labels"

46: Custody of medicines, or

"Storing medicines safely and following the rules"

Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices
Miscellaneous provisions

45Records

Every person who, in the course of any business, manufactures, packs, or sells, or supplies in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, any medicine shall keep, in some place of security at his place of business, such records as may be prescribed and shall retain them for such period as may be prescribed.
Every person who, in the course of any business, manufactures, packs, or sells, or supplies in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, any medicine shall at all times permit any officer, or any constable, to inspect and make copies of any such record, and shall at all times on demand afford to any officer or to any constable all further information in his possession with respect to any dealings by that person relating to medicines.
Every person commits an offence against this Act who—
contravenes or fails to comply in any respect with any of the provisions of this section; or
obstructs or hinders any inspection under subsection (2).

Compare

1960 No 97 s 23

Notes

Section 45(2): amended, on 1 October 2008, pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).