The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

2Appropriate practitioners

3Medicinal products on prescription only

4Duration of special provisions in relation to new medicinal products

5Exempt medicinal products

6Circumstances in which controlled drugs and medicinal products authorized by the European Community are not prescription only medicines

7Exemption for parenteral administration in an emergency to human beings of certain prescription only medicines

8Exemptions for emergency sale or supply

9Exemption for non-parenteral administration to human beings

10Exemption for medicinal products at high dilutions

11Exemptions for certain persons

12Exemption for sale or supply in hospitals

13Exemption in cases involving another’s default

14Exemption in the case of a forged prescription

15Prescriptions

SCHEDULE 1SUBSTANCES WHICH IF INCLUDED IN MEDICINAL PRODUCTS MAKE THOSE PRODUCTS PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES AND EXEMP TIONS FROM RESTRICTIONS ON THE SALE AND SUPPLY OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES

SCHEDULE 3DESCRIPTIONS AND CLASSES OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES IN RELATION TO WHICH APPROPRIATE NURSE PRACTITIONERS ARE APPROPRIATE PRACTITIONERS

SCHEDULE 4SUBSTANCES NOT TO BE CONTAINED IN A PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDI CINE SOLD OR SUPPLIED UNDER THE EXEMPTION CONFERRED BY ARTICLE 8(3)

SCHEDULE 5EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN PERSONS FROM SECTION 58(2) OF THE ACT

PART IEXEMPTION FROM RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OR SUPPLY

PART IIEXEMPTIONS FROM THE RESTRICTION ON SUPPLY

PART IIIEXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRICTION ON ADMINISTRATION Column 1

SCHEDULE 6ORDERS REVOKED

1997 No. 1830

MEDICINES

The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997

Made25th July 1997

Laid before Parliament28th July 1997

Coming into force18th August 1997

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland respectively, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 58(1), (4) and (5), 59(1) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 19681 or, as the case may be, those conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to sections 58(6) and 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Order: