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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 458.24
PRESCRIPTION FORMS FOR FREE MEDICINALS 
REGULATIONS
17th February, 1996
LEGAL NOTICE 19 of 1996.
Title and scope.
Free Medicinals Regulations.
Cap. 458.
(2) These Regulations shall apply to every form used in
prescribing any medicinal which is supplied free as mentioned in
the Medicines Act.
Forms.
Cap. 101.
S.L. 31.18.
Cap. 318.
2. (1) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when
prescribing a medicinal, except a medicinal falling under the
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, or under the Drugs (Control)
Regulations, to a patient entitled to a medicinal aids grant under the
Social Security Act, when such a patient requires the medication
for a period not exceeding one month, shall be the form set out in
the First Schedule.
Cap. 101.
S.L. 31.18
Cap. 318.
(2) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when
prescribing a medicinal, except a medicinal falling under the
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, or under the Drugs (Control)
Regulations, to a patient entitled to a medicinal aids grant under the
Social Security Act, when such a patient requires the medication
for a period exceeding one month, shall be the form set out in the
Second Schedule.
Cap. 101.
S.L. 31.18.
(3) The form which shall be used by a practitioner when
prescribing a medicinal falling under the Dangerous Drugs
Ordinance, or under the Drugs (Control) Regulations, to a patient
as is referred to in subregulations (1) and (2), shall be the form set
out in the Third Schedule.
(4) It shall be the duty of a practitioner to fill clearly and in a
legible manner all details mentioned in the relevant parts of the
forms referred to in the preceding subregulations.
(5) In prescribing medicinals or other medical aid referred to in
subregulations (1) and (2), it shall not be lawful for a practitioner to
prescribe more than an aggregate of three such medicinals or items
on any single form and in the case of items or medicinals falling
under subregulation (2), the practitioner must indicate on the form
the number of times, up to a maximum of three, such a prescription
is to be considered valid.
(6) In prescribing any medicinal referred to in sub-regulation
(3), a practitioner shall use a separate form in respect of each and
every medicinal.
Prescription 
booklets.
3. (1) Every practitioner shall in prescribing medicinals as
referred to in these regulations, make use only of the booklet of
forms bearing serial numbers and issued to him by the
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Superintendent of Public Health.
(2) Every practitioner, whether for the purpose of his private
practice or for carrying out his duties in an official capacity as a
result of his employment with Government, with a view to meeting
the needs of his patients, is obliged to make any request for such
prescription booklets on the appropriate form set out in the Fourth
Schedule. Such request form shall be correctly filled in all respects
and signed by the practitioner, and shall be either handed in by such
practitioner personally to the Director of Pharmaceutical Services
at the government medical stores or the officer acting in that
capacity or sent by post to the Superintendent of Public Health at
the Department of Health in Valletta.
(3) Any prescription to which these regulations apply shall be
deemed for all purposes of law to be made out by the practitioner to
whom the booklet from which it was culled was issued.
(4) Every practitioner is obliged to report in writing forthwith
to the Superintendent of Public Health any case of theft or loss of
any prescription booklets issued under these regulations.
Dispensing.  4. (1) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which
regulation 2(1) and (3) applies, shall retain the prescription form,
and no medicinal shall be supplied more than once on the same
prescription.
(2) A pharmacist dispensing a prescription to which regulation
2(2) applies, shall retain the prescription form or the appropriate
portion thereof, and no medicinal shall be supplied more than the
number of times indicated by the prescribing practitioner, as
stipulated in regulation 2(5).
(3) The pharmacist dispensing such prescriptions is obliged to
fill clearly and in a legible manner all details mentioned in the
relevant parts of the prescription forms.
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FIRST SCHEDULE
(Regulation 2(1))
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SECOND SCHEDULE
(Regulation 2(2))
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THIRD SCHEDULE
(Regulation 2(3)
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FOURTH SCHEDULE
(Regulation 3(2))
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