REGULATIONS UNDER THE REGULATIONS ACT, 1936

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 24 April 1945, Page 320

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REGULATIONS ACT, 1936

Serial Number 1945/33 THE POISONS (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1937, AMENDMENT NO. 4 C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of April, 1945 Present: The Hon. W. Nash presiding in Council Pursuant to the provisions of the Poisons Act, 1934, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, on the recommendation of the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand, so far as such recommendation is required by law, doth hereby make the following regulations. . . . REGULATIONS 1. These regulations may be cited as the Poisons (General) Regulations 1937, Amendment No. 4. 2. These regulations shall be read together with and form part of the Poisons (General) Regulations 1937* (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations). 3. These regulations shall come into force on the 23rd day of April, 1945. 4. The principal regulations are amended by adding to clause (5) of Regulation 1 thereof the following additional paragraph : “ A proportion expressed as a percentage in any of the provisions of these regulations, including the Schedules hereto, shall, ' unless otherwise expressly stated, be deemed in the case of solid poisons to represent the number of grammes of the poison contained in one hundred grammes of a solid substance or preparation, or in one hundred millilitres of a liquid ~ substance or preparation ; and in the case of liquid poisons to represent the number of millilitres of the poison contained in one hundred grammes of a solid substance or preparation or in one hundred millilitres of a liquid substance or preparation.” 5. Regulation 5 and Regulation 6 of the Poisons (General) Regulations 1937, Amendment No. 3 are hereby revoked. 6. Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is amended by adding thereto the following clause : “ (7) The substance known as 2, 2-bis (p-chlorophenyl) -1, 1, 1trichlorethane, also known as dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane, and known popularly by the abbreviation ‘ D.D.T.’, is excluded from the operation of a storekeeper’s extended poison license, notwithstanding the inclusion of the said substance in the First Schedule to the Act.” 7. Regulation 4 of the principal regulations, as heretofore amended, is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor : “ Regulation 4. Prescription Poisons “ (1) This regulation applies to the following substances : “ Group I.— (a) Amidopyrine ; (b) its salts. “ Group II. —(a) Barbituric acid ; ( b ) its salts ; (c) derivatives of barbituric acid ; ( d ) their salts ; (e) compounds with any other substance of barbituric acid or of its salts or of its derivatives or of their salts ; except solutions containing not more than 2 per cent, of the substances included in this group. “ Group III.—(a) Dinitrocresols ; (b) dinitronaphthols; (c) dinitrophenols ; ( d dinitrothymols. * Statutory Regulations 1937, Serial number 1937/197, page 739. Amendment No. 1 : Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/73, page 300. Amendment No. 2 : Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/207, page 853. Amendment No. 3 : Statutory Regulations 1942, Serial number 1942/49, page 114.

“ Group IV.—(a) Phenylcinchoninic acid ; (6) its salts ; (c) its esters ; ( d ) salicylcinchoninic acid ; ( e ) its salts ; (/) its esters. “ Group V.—(a) Sulphonal; (6) alkyl sulphonals. “ Group Vl.Chlorodyne and similar substances containing more than 0-1 per cent, of morphine and less than 0-2 per cent, of morphine. “ Group VII.(a) Para-aminobenzene sulphonamide ; ( b ) its ■salts; (c) derivatives of para-amino-benzene sulphonamide having another . radical or radicals substituted for one or both of the hydrogen atoms of (i) the para-amino group or (ii) the sulphonamide group or (iii) both of these groups ; (d) the salts of such derivatives. “ Group VIII. —(a) Ergot; (b) extracts of ergot; (c) tinctures • of ergot; ( d alkaloids of ergot; ( e) salts : s of alkaloids of ergot. “ Group IX.—Paraldehyde, except solutions containing not more than 1 per cent, of paraldehyde. “ Group X.— (a) Ethyl 1 - methyl -4 - phenylpiperidine -4 - carboxylate ; ( b its salts. “ (2) For the purposes of this regulation £ prescription ’ includes * order and the provisions of this regulation relating to prescriptions shall apply also to orders. “ (3) No person shall sell by retail or dispense any substance being one of the substances included in Groups I to V (both inclusive) and X set out in clause (1) of this regulation except in accordance with a prescription given by a medical practitioner or dentist and complying with the requirements of clause (10) of this regulation. “ (4) No person shall sell by retail or dispense any substance being one of the substances included in Groups VI to IX (both inclusive) set out in clause (1) of this regulation except in accordance with a prescription given by a medical practitioner, dentist, or veterinary surgeon and complying with the requirements of clause (10) of this regulation.

“ (5) Every person giving a prescription intended to take effect or capable of taking effect under the provisions of this regulation shall in giving the prescription comply with the requirements set out in clause (10) of this regulation.

“ (6) Notwithstanding clause (5) of this regulation, in case of emergency a person authorized to give prescriptions under clauses (3) and (4) of this regulation may orally, whether face to face or by direct person-to-person telephone communication, communicate to a chemist personally known to him for the purpose of being sold and dispensed by such chemist a prescription relating to a substance included in any of the groups set out in clause (1) of this regulation if the substance is one in respect of which the prescriber is authorized to give prescriptions. - '

“ (7) Every prescriber who communicates orally to a chemist a prescription relating to a substance included in any of the groups set out in clause (1) of this, regulation shall forthwith himself reduce such prescription to writing in manner complying with the requirements of clause (10) of this regulation, and shall forthwith deliver the writing directly to the chemist whom he authorized to dispense the prescription, with an indication written thereon to the effect that it is intended only in confirmation of a prescription already communicated orally on a date to be stated in such indication. “ (8) Notwithstanding clauses (3) and (4) of this regulation, in case of emergency a chemist may sell or dispense a substance included in any of the groups set out in clause (1) of this regulation pursuant to a prescription communicated orally by a prescriber personally known to him and communicated under the authority of clause (6) of this regulation.

“ (9) Any chemist having sold or .dispensed any substance referred to in clause (1) hereof pursuant to clause (8) hereof who does not forthwith receive a written prescription as provided by clause (7) hereof the terms of which comply in all respects with the prescription orally communicated shall forthwith notify the Registrar or a Medical Officer of Health to that effect. • “ (10) Every prescription given under this regulation shall “ (a) Be written personally in his own handwriting by the person giving it and signed personally with his usual signature (and otherwise than by means of a stamping contrivance): “ ( b ) Set out the date on which it is written : “ (c) Set out the name- and address of the person for whose use the prescription is given : “ (d) Indicate by name the substance or preparation that is required to be dispensed. “ ( e) Indicate the total amount of medicine to be supplied and the amount and frequency of each dose to be taken.

, “ (11) No dentist shall prescribe any substance referred to in clause (1) hereof for any person other than a patient under treatment by him, and no dentist shall prescribe for any person a quantity exceeding three usual doses of any substance referred to in clause (1) hereof, and no person shall dispense more than once a prescription prescribed by a dentist containing any substance referred to in clause (1) hereof.

“ (12) No veterinary surgeon shall prescribe any substance referred to in clause (1) hereof otherwise than in the practice of his profession for the treatment of an animal under his care.

“ (13) Every person dispensing a prescription containing any substance referred to in clause (1) hereof shall comply with the following requirements :

“ (a) The prescription shall not be dispensed more than once unless, in cases to which clause (11) hereof does not apply, the prescriber has stated thereon that it may be dispensed on more occasions than one, the number of such occasions being set out in the statement: “ (b) If the prescription contains a direction that it may be dispensed a stated number of times or at stated intervals, it shall not be dispensed otherwise than in accordance with the direction:

“ (c) At every time of dispensing there shall be written on the face of the prescription above the signature of the prescriber the name and address of the seller and the date on which the prescription is dispensed : “ (d) After being dispensed, whether on the single occasion or the last of the several occasions on which according to this regulation it is permissible to dispense it, every prescription shall either be delivered to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in . which the chemist carries on business in accordance with the provisions of clause 14 of the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Supplies) Regulations 1941* or, for a period of three years, be retained by the chemist on the premises on which it was dispensed, in such maimer as to be readily available for inspection, or, if the chemist vacates these premises within that period, be delivered by the chemist to a Medical Officer of Health. ' “ (14) Nevertheless, under special circumstances the Registrar may at his discretion authorize the dispensing of prescriptions without compliance with the requirements set out in clause (13) hereof, but subject to such other requirements as the Registrar thinks fit to impose.” 8. The First Schedule to the Poisons Act, 1934, as heretofore modified by clause (3) of Regulation 2 of the principal regulations, is hereby further modified by inserting therein, next following the words “ tribromethyl alcohol ”, the following additional names of substances : derivatives ; ( d ) their salts ; (e) beta-aminoisopropyl-benzene ; (/) its salts; ( g ) its N-alkyl derivatives; ( h ) their salts; excepting, however, appliances for inhalation containing any of the foregoing group of related substances in which the poison is absorbed in inert solid material. “ 32. (a) Ethyl l-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate ; (b) its salts. ' “ 33. (a) Para - aminobenzene sulphonamide ; b ) its salts ; (c) derivatives of para-aminobenzene sulphonamide having another, radical or radicals substituted for one or both of the hydrogen atoms of the para-amino group or of the sulphonamide group or both these groups ; (d) their salts. “ 34. Paraldehyde. “ 35. 2, 2-bis (p-chlorophenyl) -1, 1, 1-trichlorethane, also known as dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane, and known popularly by the abbreviation ‘ D.D.T.’ ” _ 9. Regulation 7 of the Poisons (General) Regulations 1937, Amendment No. 3|, is hereby revoked. , C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council. * Statutory Regulations 1941, Serial number 1941/66, page 240. t Statutory Regulations 1942, Serial number 1942/49, page 114.