Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 (e) require precautions for the safe custody of Part I scheduled drugs; (f) require the packaging and labelling of Part I scheduled drugs and specify the manner of such packaging and labelling; (g) regulate the transport of Part I scheduled drugs and the methods used for destroying or otherwise disposing of such drugs when no longer required; (h) regulate the issuing of prescriptions containing any Part I scheduled drug and the supply of such drugs on prescription and the dispensing of any such prescriptions; (i) require persons issuing or dispensing prescriptions containing Part I scheduled drugs to furnish to the Authority such information relating to those prescriptions as may be prescribed; (j) require persons engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of any Part I scheduled drug to keep such books and furnish such information, either in writing or otherwise, as may be prescribed; (k) require any medical practitioner treating a person whom he considers, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, is addicted to any dangerous drug, to furnish such particulars concerning that person to the Permanent Secretary responsible for health as may be prescribed; (l) prohibit any medical practitioner from administering, supplying or authorising the administration and supply to persons addicted to any dangerous drug such drug, and from prescribing for such persons such drug, except under and in accordance with the terms of a permit issued by the Permanent Secretary responsible for health. (m) regulate the fees payable for the issue or renewal or any licence, application or thing done in terms of this Part; (n) make any contravention of the regulations an offence and impose a fine not exceeding level six for any such contravention. (2) Regulations made under this section shall provide for authorising a person lawfully carrying on business as a pharmaceutical chemist— (a) in the ordinary course of his retail business to manufacture, at any premises registered under Part VI, any preparation, admixture or extract of a Part I scheduled drug; (b) to carry on at any such premises the business of retailing, dispensing or compounding any such drug; subject to the power of the Authority to withdraw the authorisation in the case of a person who has been convicted of a dangerous drugs crime, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Authority, properly be allowed to carry on the business of a manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, such a drug. - 180 -

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