New Zealand Acts

MEDICINES AMENDMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 14

14 Regulations

Section 105(1) of the principal Act is amended by repealing paragraph (q) , and substituting the following paragraphs:

q) Regulating the issue by practitioners, veterinarians, registered midwives, and designated prescribers of prescriptions for the supply of any medicine, and requiring persons issuing or dispensing prescriptions in respect of any medicine to furnish such information relating to those prescriptions as may be prescribed:

qa) Authorising any class of registered health professional, other than a practitioner or registered midwife, to prescribe prescription medicines of a specified class or description in accordance with such conditions, limitations, requirements, or restrictions specified in or imposed under the regulations:

qb) Regulating the issue of standing orders, imposing conditions, limitations, requirements, or restrictions in relation to the contents of standing orders and their use, and providing for such other matters as are necessary or desirable for the administration of standing orders:

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