NEWFOUNDLAND AND
LABRADOR
REGULATION 53/18
Monitored Drugs Regulations
under the
Prescription Monitoring Act
(O.C. 2018-121)
Amended:
2022 cP-30.1 s71
NEWFOUNDLAND
AND
LABRADOR
REGULATION 53/18
Monitored Drugs Regulations
under the
Prescription Monitoring Act
(O.C. 2018-121)
(Filed June 28, 2018)
Under the authority of section 21 of the Prescription Monitoring Act
, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.
Dated at St. John’s
, June 28, 2018.
Ann Marie Hann
Clerk of Executive Council
REGULATIONS
Analysis
Short title
1.
These regulations may be cited as the Monitored Drugs Regulations
.
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Definitions
2.
In these regulations
(a)
"dispense" means to provide a substance or item ordered by prescription but does not include the administration of that substance or item to a person or animal;
(b)
"dispensing dentist" means a dentist licensed under the Dental Act, 2008
who dispenses monitored drugs in the course of his or her practice;
(c)
"dispensing physician" means a medical practitioner licensed under the Medical Act, 2011
who dispenses monitored drugs in the course of his or her practice;
(d)
"dispensing registered nurse" means a registered nurse
licensed under the Registered Nurses Act, 2008
who dispenses monitored drugs in the course of his or her employment with the Provincial Health Authority
;
(e)
"hospital" means an acute care health facility operated by the Crown or an agent of the Crown for the care of diseased, injured or sick people but does not include a residential long term care facility;
(f)
"Provincial Health Authority" means the Provincial Health Authority established under the Provincial Health Authority Act
; and
(g)
"veterinarian" means a veterinarian licensed under the Veterinary Medical Act, 2004
who prescribes and dispenses monitored drugs in the course of his or her practice.
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Monitored drugs
3.
For the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(e) of the Act the following are monitored drugs:
(a)
opioids listed in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
(Canada
); and
(b)
tramadol.
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Non-application of Act
4.
(1) The Act does not apply to
(a)
the dispensing of a monitored drug by a dispenser who dispenses a monitored drug to a patient in a hospital to be administered in the hospital; and
(b)
the prescribing and dispensing of a monitored drug by a veterinarian.
(2)
Subsection 8(3) of the Act does not apply to a dispensing
dentist, dispensing physician or a dispensing registered nurse.
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