Hong Kong Regulations

PHARMACY AND POISONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 23

Supply of medicines for use in institutions, etc.

(1) In any institution in which medicines are dispensed in a dispensing or
pharmaceutical department in charge of a registered pharmacist or any other
person approved by the Director of Health for that purpose, no medicine
containing a poison shall be supplied from that department, except in cases of
emergency, for use in the wards, operating theatres or other sections of the
institution, except in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3). (L.N. 76 of
1989)

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the medicines shall not be supplied except upon
a written order signed by a duly registered medical practitioner, registered
dentist, or by a person authorized to be in charge of a ward, theatre or other
section of the institution.

(3) The container of the medicine shall be labelled-

   (a)  with words describing its contents;

   (b)  in the case of substances included in the First Schedule, with a
        distinguishing mark or other indication indicating that the poison is
        to be stored in a cupboard reserved solely for the storage of poisons.

(4) In the case of an emergency, a medicine containing a poison may be
supplied without a written order if the person ordering the medicine
undertakes to furnish a written order in respect of that medicine within the
next 24 hours.