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[接上页] PART IV STATUTORY AUTHORITY TO PROCURE, SUPPLY AND POSSESS DANGEROUS DRUGS (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance- (a) a registered medical practitioner; (b) a registered dentist; (c) a registered veterinary surgeon; (Amended 96 of 1997 s. 33) (d) the Chief Pharmacist; (e) a person- (i) who is a registered pharmacist or an approved person; (ii) who is employed or engaged at a prescribed hospital or at a health centre or clinic maintained by the Crown; and (iii) whose duties in that employment or engagement include the dispensing or supply of medicines for that, or any other such, hospital, health centre or clinic;(f) a sister for the time being in charge of a ward, theatre or other department in a prescribed hospital or in a health centre or clinic maintained by the Crown; (g) a person in charge of a laboratory used for the purposes of research or instruction and attached to a university or to an approved hospital or institution,is hereby authorized, so far as may be necessary for the practice or exercise of his profession, function or employment, and in his capacity as such, to be in possession of and to supply a dangerous drug. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the matron of a prescribed hospital is hereby authorized, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of the hospital, and in her capacity as matron thereof, to be in possession of and to supply a dangerous drug. (3) The Government Chemist is hereby authorized, so far as may be necessary for the exercise of his employment, and in his capacity as such, to be in possession of or to synthesize a dangerous drug. (Amended 62 of 1994 s. 5) (4) A registered medical practitioner is hereby authorized, so far as may be necessary for the practice of his profession, to manufacture any preparation and to be in possession of and procure any dangerous drug required for the manufacture of such preparation. (5) Any registered pharmacist or approved person who is employed or engaged at a prescribed hospital is hereby authorized- (a) to manufacture any preparation required for the purposes of the hospital; and (b) to be in possession of and to procure any dangerous drug so far as it may be necessary for such manufacture:Provided that an approved person shall be so authorized only if he is acting on the directions of the medical officer in charge of the hospital. (5A) The Director may authorize in writing, for such period as he may specify in the authorization, a person who- (a) is not a registered medical practitioner; and (b) practises medicine in a clinic exempted under section 8 of the Medical Clinics Ordinance (Cap 343),to- (i) supply in that clinic such of the dangerous drugs specified in the Sixth Schedule as are specified in the authorization, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of and in the course of medical treatment; and (ii) be in possession in that clinic of, and to procure, such drugs specified in the authorization in not more than such quantity as the Director may specify in the authorization, so far as may be necessary for such supply. (Added 2 of 1992 s. 4)(6) In section 24, and in this section, except subsection (3), "dangerous drug" does not include the drugs specified in any of paragraphs 8 to 11 of Part I of the First Schedule. (Amended 46 of 1978 s. 4; 80 of 1997 s. 102) [cf. S.I. 1964/1811 reg. 10 (1) & (3) U.K.] Cap 134 s 23 Restrictions on authority conferred by section 22, etc. (1) Nothing in section 22 shall- (a) authorize a registered dentist to supply a dangerous drug unless the drug is administered by him, or under his direct supervision and in his presence, to a person receiving treatment by him; (b) authorize the sister in charge of a ward, theatre or other department in a prescribed hospital or in a health centre or clinic maintained by the Crown- (i) to procure a dangerous drug except from a person employed or engaged in dispensing medicines at the hospital, health centre or clinic or from the matron of the hospital and except upon a written order signed by the sister; or (ii) to supply a dangerous drug except in accordance with a prescription lawfully given by a registered medical practitioner in charge of any of the patients of the hospital, health centre or clinic or in accordance with directions given in the bed card or case sheet of a patient in the hospital or health centre by a registered medical practitioner in charge of that patient or in accordance with a prescription lawfully given by a registered dentist in charge of any of the patients in the hospital;(c) authorize a person who is a registered pharmacist or an approved person and who is employed or engaged at a prescribed hospital or at a health centre or clinic maintained by the Crown to supply a dangerous drug except- (i) in accordance with a written order signed by the sister in charge of a ward, theatre or other department in the hospital, health centre or clinic; or (ii) in accordance with a prescription lawfully given by a registered medical practitioner in charge of any of the patients of the hospital, health centre or clinic or in accordance with directions given in the bed card or case sheet of a patient in the hospital or health centre by a registered medical practitioner in charge of that patient or in accordance with a prescription lawfully given by a registered dentist in charge of any of the patients in the hospital;(d) authorize the matron of a prescribed hospital to procure a dangerous drug except on an order signed by the medical officer in charge of the hospital or to supply a dangerous drug except- |