S.L. 31.18 Art. 8Dispensing of prescriptions. 

(1) No person other than an apothecary shall dispense a prescription for a specified drug.

(2) No apothecary shall dispense a prescription for a specified drug unless -

(a) he is acquainted with the signature of the person by whom it purports to have been issued, he has no reason to suppose that it is not genuine and he has taken reasonable steps to satisfy himself that it is genuine; and

(b) the prescription complies with the provisions of regulation 7 of these regulations.

(3) No specified drug shall be supplied more than once on the same prescription.

(4) An apothecary dispensing a prescription for a specified drug shall fill in a clear and legible hand, in ink or other indelible material, Part C of the form set out in the Seventh Schedule to these Regulations, and supply all the details and give all the information as therein required; the apothecary shall further add his signature in full and the date, and shall, after dispensing the prescription, retain it.

(5) For the purpose of sub-regulation (4) of this regulation, it shall be the duty of an apothecary dispensing a prescription for a specified drug to request a legally valid identification document of the person in respect of whom the prescription has been issued and it shall be the duty of the person who intends to acquire a specified drug, whether for himself or on behalf of the person to whom the drugs have been prescribed, to present the said identification document as well as his own identification document together with the prescription: Provided that the provisions of this sub-regulation and the relative part of the provisions of sub-regulation (4) shall not apply in respect of a person who has not yet been issued with a legally valid identification document.

(6) It shall be the duty of every managing apothecary of a licensed dispensary to send to the Superintendent in a sealed envelope on the first day of every month all the prescriptions for specified drugs dispensed from that dispensary during the preceding month; that envelope shall be addressed "Superintendent of Public Health, Department of Health, Valletta" and may be marked "Public Health Notifications" for the purpose of exemption from postage.

(7) (a) In the case of eprescriptions, the pharmacist shall access the electronic system by the applicable official verification.

(b) The pharmacist must ensure that the prescription was sent by the official electronic system and fill in the details specified by these regulations in the manner that is required by the electronic system.