Benzodiazepines and Other Targeted Substances Regulations

Marginal note:Supply to non-patients

• 65 (1) A pharmacist practising in a hospital or an individual who is authorized by the person in charge of a hospital to fill orders for targeted substances on behalf of the hospital may, on receipt of an order specifying the name, quantity and, if applicable, strength per unit of a targeted substance from any of the following persons, sell or provide the targeted substance to that person without a prescription:

  • (a) subject to subsection (2),

    • (i) a licensed dealer who

      • (A) sold or provided the substance, or

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

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

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

    • (iv) another hospital, if the order is placed by a pharmacist practising in the other hospital or a practitioner who is authorized to order the targeted substance on behalf of the other hospital and the order states that the substance is required because of a delay or shortfall in an order placed with a licensed dealer or a pharmacist;

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

  • (c) a person to whom an exemption with respect to the targeted substance has been granted under section 56 of the Act, if

    • (i) the person is an employee of or associated with the hospital, and

    • (ii) the order is a written order accompanied by a copy of the exemption.

• Marginal note:Verbal orders

  (2) In the circumstances set out in paragraph (1)(a), if the order is verbal, the pharmacist practising in the hospital or the individual who is authorized by the person in charge of the hospital to fill orders for the targeted substance on behalf of the hospital must, before filling the order, record the following information:

  • (a) the date on which the order was received;

  • (b) the name and address of the person placing the order;

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

  • (d) the quantity of the targeted substance ordered; and

  • (e) their name.