Preservation of records relating to drugs in Schedules III and V

(1) The producer of any drug specified in Schedule III or V and a wholesale dealer in such drug shall keep every invoice or other like record in respect of each quantity of such a drug obtained by him and in respect of each quantity of such a drug supplied by him. V. V. (2) A person who is authorised under regulation 9(4) to supply any drug specified in Schedule III shall keep every invoice or other like record issued in respect of each quantity of such a drug obtained by him and in respect of each quantity of such a drug supplied by him. (3) A retail dealer in any drug specified in Schedule III, a person in charge or acting person in charge of any hospital, nursing home or drug rehabilitation centre and a person in charge of a laboratory, shall keep every invoice or other like record issued in respect of each quantity of such a drug obtained by him and in respect of each quantity of such a drug supplied by him. Schedule V. (4) Every retail dealer in any drug specified in Schedule V shall keep every invoice or other like record issued in respect of each quantity of such a drug obtained by him. (5) Every invoice or other record which is required by this regulation to be kept in respect of a drug specified in Schedule III, shall contain information sufficient to identify the date of the transaction and the person by whom or to whom the drug was supplied. (6) Every document kept in pursuance of this regulation shall be preserved for a period of two years from the date on which it was issued, provided that the keeping of a copy of the document made at any time during the said period of two years shall be Misuse of Drugs 41 treated for the purposes of this subregulation as if it were the keeping of the original document.