Benzodiazepines and Other Targeted Substances Regulations

Marginal note:Activities without a prescription

• 55 (1) A pharmacist may sell, provide, send, deliver or transport a targeted substance without a prescription to any of the following persons on receipt of an order from that person that specifies the name and quantity of the targeted substance:

  • (a) if the order is written, a licensed dealer who

    • (i) sold or provided the targeted substance, or

    • (ii) is licensed to destroy targeted substances, other than those that the licensed dealer produced, made, assembled, sold or provided;

  • (b) subject to subsection (2),

    • (i) a practitioner,

    • (ii) another pharmacist, if the other pharmacist states that the targeted substance is required because of a delay or shortfall in an order for the targeted substance placed with a licensed dealer, or

    • (iii) a hospital, if the order is placed by a pharmacist practising in the hospital or by a practitioner who is authorized to order the targeted substance on behalf of the hospital;

  • (c) the Minister, if the order is a written order signed on the Minister’s behalf; or

  • (d) a person to whom an exemption with respect to the targeted substance has been granted under section 56 of the Act, if the order is a written order and is accompanied by a copy of the exemption.

• Marginal note:Verbal orders

  (2) In the circumstances set out in subparagraphs (1)(b)(i) to (iii), if the order is verbal, the pharmacist must record the following information:

  • (a) the name and address of the pharmacist or practitioner placing the order;

  • (b) if the order was placed on behalf of an establishment, the name and address of the establishment;

  • (c) the date of the order;

  • (d) the specified name or the brand name of the targeted substance ordered, as specified in the order;

  • (e) the quantity and, if applicable, the strength per unit of the targeted substance; and

  • (f) the name of the recording pharmacist.

• Marginal note:Records

  (3) A pharmacist who sells, provides, sends, delivers or transports a targeted substance without a prescription must keep a record of the following information:

  • (a) the brand name of the targeted substance or, if the targeted substance does not have a brand name, the specified name;

  • (b) the quantity and strength per unit of the targeted substance;

  • (c) the name and address of the person referred to in subsection (1) to whom the targeted substance was sold, provided, sent, delivered or transported; and

  • (d) the date of the transaction.

• Marginal note:Copies

  (4) The pharmacist must keep the written order or, if the order is verbal, must create a hard copy of the order.