Cap. 31 Art. 40APsychotropic drugs.

(1) The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, and so far as he may consider necessary or expedient for the protection of the public health, make regulations for controlling the manufacture, exportation, importation, possession, distribution and sale of psychotropic drugs as may be deemed by him to require such control in the public interest, and for preventing their improper use, and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers for -

(a) regulating the issue by the persons mentioned in article 31(1) of prescriptions containing any such drug or chemical product and the dispensing of any such prescription;

(b) requiring persons engaged in the manufacture, exportation, importation, sale or distribution of any such drug or chemical product to keep and produce for inspection such books and to furnish such information as may be prescribed;

*See article 16 of Act V of 1985.

(c) requiring and regulating the labelling and marking of any such psychotropic drug and regulating any advertisement thereof.

(2) For the purpose of this article, the term "psychotropic drug" means any drug or chemical listed in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.

(3) The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.