Provisions as to supply on prescriptions

(1) A person shall not supply a controlled drug other than a drug specified in Schedule IV or V on a prescription– (a) unless the prescription complies with the provisions of regulation 15; (b) unless the address specified in the prescription as the address of the person issuing it is an address within Belize; (c) unless he is acquainted with the signature of the person by whom it purports to be issued and has no reason to suppose that it is not genuine, or has taken reasonably sufficient steps to satisfy himself that it is genuine; (d) before the date specified in the prescription; and (e) subject to subregulation (3), later than thirteen weeks after the date specified in the (2) Subject to subregulation (3), a person supplying on prescription a controlled drug other than a drug, specified in Schedule IV or V shall, at the time of the supply, mark on the prescription the date on which the drug was supplied and shall retain the prescription on the premises from which the drug was supplied. Schedules IV Schedules IV (3) In the case of a prescription containing a controlled drug other than a drug specified in Schedule IV or V, which contains a direction that specified instalments of the total amount may be Misuse of Drugs 33 supplied at stated intervals, the person supplying the drug shall not do so otherwise than in accordance with that direction and– (a) subregulation (1) shall have effect as if for the requirement contained in paragraph (e) thereof there were substituted a requirement that the occasion on which the first instalment is supplied shall not be later than thirteen weeks after the date specified in the prescription; and (b) subregulation (2) shall have effect as if for the words “at the time of supply” there were substituted the words “on each occasion on which an instalment is supplied”.