Medicines (Health Professionals – Exemption) (Jersey) Order 2001

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Medicines (Health Professionals – Exemption) (Jersey) Order 2001

Article

1             Exemption. 3

2             Citation. 4

Table of Legislation History. 5

Table of Renumbered Provisions. 5

Table of Endnote References. 5

Medicines (Health Professionals – Exemption) (Jersey) Order 2001[1]

1        Exemption

(1)     Articles 51, 52 and 57(2) of the Medicines (Jersey) Law 1995 shall have effect subject to the exemption specified in paragraph (2).

(2)     A relevant health professional authorized by an administration of the States to do so may sell, supply or administer a medicinal product in accordance with a direction given by the Minister.[2]

(3)     Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2), a direction given under that paragraph may specify –

(a)     the period during which it has effect;

(b)     the clinical criteria under which a person is eligible for treatment under the direction;

(c)     any class of person excluded from treatment under the direction;

(d)     any circumstance in which further advice must be sought from a doctor or dentist;

(e)     any follow up action that must be taken in a specified circumstance;

(f)      when a person must be referred for medical advice;

(g)     details of any record to be kept of the sale, supply or administration of a medicinal product in accordance with the direction;

(h)     the medicinal product to which the direction relates; and

(i)      details in respect of the sale, supply or administration of that medicinal product as specified in paragraph (4).[3]

(4)     Those details in respect of the sale, supply or administration of the medicinal product are –

(a)     the clinical situation in which it may be sold, supplied or administered;

(b)     the pharmaceutical form in which it may be sold, supplied or administered;

(c)     the strength or maximum strength at which it may be sold, supplied or administered;

(d)     the dosage or maximum dosage at which it may be administered;

(e)     the route by which it may be administered;

(f)      its frequency of administration;

(g)     any minimum or maximum period during which it may be sold, supplied or administered;

(h)     any restriction on the quantity that may be sold, supplied or administered on any one occasion;

(i)      any warning or other relevant information applicable to the medicinal product and the manner in which the warning or information is to be given or provided.[4]

(5)     In this Article –

“administration of the States” has the same meaning as in Article 1 of the Employment of States of Jersey Employees (Jersey) Law 2005;

“health professional” means a person authorized to practise in Jersey as an ambulance paramedic, optometrist, or orthoptist or as a chiropodist, specialist community public health nurse, nurse, midwife, pharmacist, physiotherapist or radiographer;

“relevant health professional” means a health professional who in that capacity works for an administration of the States under –

(a)     a contract of employment with the States Employment Board;

(b)     a contract for services for an administration of the States;

(c)     a contract of employment with, or for services for, an agency that has contracted with an administration of the States for the provision of services; or

(d)     a contract of employment with, or for services for, an organisation that has entered into an agreement with an administration of the States to sell, supply or administer a medicinal product in accordance with this Order.[5]

2        Citation

This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Health Professionals – Exemption) (Jersey) Order 2001.

Endnotes

Table of Legislation History

Table of Renumbered Provisions

Table of Endnote References