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Medical Act
CHAPTER 14.02
MEDICAL ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
PART 1
REGISTRATION
3. Appointment of Registrar
4. Medical Register
5. Registration of persons already qualified
6. Application for registration
7. Additional qualifications
8. Alteration in Medical Register
9. Removal of name from Medical Register on request
10. Removal of name on death
11. Erasing from Medical Register name of person convicted of crime or disgraceful conduct
12. Provisions relating to inquiries by Committee
13. Name may be restored to Register
14. Publication of copy of Register and evidence of registration
15. Penalty for obtaining registration by false representation
16. Penalty for Registrar making false entry
PART 2
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
17. Persons entitled to be registered
18. Naval and Military Medical Officers
19. Rights of registered practitioners
20. Offences by unregistered persons
21. Validity of certificates

PART 3
DENTISTS
22. Definition of the practice of dentistry
23. Registration of dentists
24. Offences by unregistered persons
25. Qualifications necessary for registration
26. No recovery of fees by unregistered person
PART 4
OPTICIANS
27. No person to practise sight-testing unless registered
28. Persons entitled to be registered
29. Evidence of practice of sight-testing
30. Registered optician entitled to recover charges
31. Offences
32. Exemptions
PART 5
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS
33. No person to practise as druggist unless registered
34. Qualifications for registration
35. Procedure to be followed by applicants for certificates of competency
36. Exemption
PART 6
SALE OF DRUGS AND POISONS
37. Prohibition of sale of drugs by unregistered person
38. Sign on shop for sale of drugs
39. Refusal to dispense. Improper or negligent conduct
40. Prescriptions to be numbered and filed
41. Substances to be deemed poisons
42. Prohibition of sale of poison to person under sixteen
43. Restriction on sale of poison
44. Penalty for false information
45. Prohibition of sale or delivery of poison by uncertified shop assistant
46. Duty of druggist where excessive dose of poison prescribed
47. Label on container of patent or proprietary medicine
48. Prohibition of sale of unfit drugs

49. Inspection of drugs and books
50. Regulations
51. Penalties
SCHEDULES


CHAPTER 14.02
MEDICAL ACT
(Acts 31 of 1937, 1 of 1945, 6 of 1948, 11 of 1951,
8 of 1954, 7 of 1965, 9 of 2011 and S.R.O. 15/1956)
Commencement
[1 March 1938]
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Medical Act.
Interpretation
2. In this Act—
“Medical Register” means the Register of medical practitioners, dentists, opticians, and chemists and druggists required to be kept in pursuance of this Act;
“optician” means a sight-testing optician;
“prescribed fee” means a fee prescribed by the Schedule of Fees to this Act;
“Registrar” means such person as may be appointed by the Governor to be Registrar under this Act.
PART 1
REGISTRATION
Appointment of Registrar
3. The Governor shall by notice in the Gazette appoint a fit and proper person to be Registrar under this Act, and it shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep the Medical Register.
Medical Register
4. The Medical Register shall contain separate lists, made out alphabetically according to the surnames, of all the names and addresses with descriptions and dates of the qualifications in respect of which they are registered, and the dates of registration of all persons qualified to practise in Montserrat as medical practitioners, dentists, opticians, or chemists and druggists.

Registration of persons already qualified
5. (1) The Registrar shall forthwith place on the Medical Register, without payment of any fee, the names, qualifications and addresses of all persons who are entitled to be registered by virtue of sections 17(a), 25(a), and 34(b), and every such person shall thereupon be subjected to all the provisions of this Act.
(2) Upon entering in the Medical Register the name of any such person who is entitled to be registered as aforesaid, the Registrar shall also issue to him a Certificate of Registration in the form set out in Schedule A.
Application for registration
6. (1) Where any person desires to be registered under this Act he shall make application to the Registrar, and shall submit such evidence as may be required to establish that he is eligible to be registered and is a fit and proper person to be so registered.
(2) Such evidence shall include a declaration on oath in proof of the applicant’s identity and good moral character, and of the authenticity of any diploma or certificate submitted in support of the application.
(3) The Registrar shall forthwith refer such application to the Governor and the Governor if satisfied that the applicant is eligible and is a fit and proper person to be so registered, shall direct the Registrar to register him upon payment of the prescribed fee.
(4) The Registrar shall thereupon make the necessary entry in the Medical Register and publish notice thereof in the Gazette, and shall also issue to the person so registered a Certificate of Registration in the form set out in the Schedule A.
Additional qualifications
7. Any person registered under this Act who may have any higher degree or any qualification other than the qualification in respect of which he may have been registered, shall be entitled to have such higher degree or additional qualification inserted in the Medical Register, in substitution for, or in addition to, the qualification previously registered, on payment of the prescribed fee.
Alteration in Medical Register
8. The Registrar may correct any errors or omissions in the Medical Register, and insert therein any alteration which may come to his knowledge in the name or address of any person registered.
Removal of name from Medical Register on request
9. The Registrar shall upon the application of any person registered under this Act remove the name of such person from the Medical Register.

Removal of name on death
10. The Registrar shall on the death of any person registered under this Act remove the name of such deceased person from the Medical Register.
Erasing from Medical Register name of person convicted of crime or
disgraceful conduct
11. (1) If any person registered under this Act is convicted of felony or misdemeanour before the High Court, or after due inquiry by a Committee consisting of not less than two registered medical practitioners whom the Governor is hereby authorised to appoint to conduct such inquiry, is adjudged by the Committee to have been guilty of disgraceful conduct in a professional capacity the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may on the recommendation of the said Committee direct the Registrar to erase the name of such person from the Medical Register. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(2) Where the name of any person registered under this Act is removed or erased from the Medical Register, any Certificate of Registration issued to such person shall be deemed to be cancelled.
Provisions relating to inquiries by Committee
12. (1) For the purposes of any inquiry under section 11(1) the Governor may, at the request of the Committee, appoint a judicial assessor and (where necessary) retain counsel, to assist the Committee, and upon any such inquiry the complainant (if any) and the person against whom disgraceful conduct is alleged shall be entitled to be heard and may be represented by counsel.
(2) The Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may make rules prescribing the procedure to be followed with respect to the institution and prosecution of inquiries under section 11. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
Name may be restored to Register
13. The Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may, if he thinks fit in any case direct any name removed or erased from the Medical Register to be restored thereon on the payment of such fee, not exceeding the registration fee, as the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may fix. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
Publication of copy of Register and evidence of registration
14. (1) The Registrar, in the month of February in each year, shall cause to be published in the Gazette a copy of the Medical Register.
(2) The Registrar shall also cause to be published in the Gazette a notice of each cancellation of registration.
(3) A copy of the Medical Register for the time being published in the Gazette shall be evidence in all cases (until the contrary be made to appear) that the persons therein specified are registered under this Act, and the absence of the name of any person from such copy or the production of a notice of

cancellation of registration published in the Gazette shall be evidence (until the contrary be made to appear) that such person is not registered under this Act: Provided that, in the case of a person whose name does not appear in such copy of the Medical Register, a certified copy under the hand of the Registrar of the entry of the name of such person in the Register shall be evidence that such person is registered under this Act.
(4) A Certificate of Registration under the hand of the Registrar shall also be evidence in all cases (until the contrary be made to appear) that the person to whom such Certificate has been issued is duly registered under this Act.
Penalty for obtaining registration by false representation
15. Any person who shall fraudulently procure or attempt to procure himself or any other person to be registered under this Act or who shall aid or abet in such fraudulent procurement or attempt, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term of two years.
Penalty for Registrar making false entry
16. Any Registrar or other person who shall fraudulently make or cause or permit to be made any false or incorrect entry in the Medical Register or any copy thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term of two years.
PART 2
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
Persons entitled to be registered
17. (1) The following persons shall be entitled to be registered as medical practitioners under this Act, that is to say—
(a) any person who at the commencement of this Act is in actual practice in Montserrat, and is in the opinion of the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet duly qualified to practise medicine or surgery under the provisions of the Medical Consolidation Act hereby repealed; (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(b) any person who shows to the satisfaction of the Governor that he is of good moral character and is registered or entitled to be registered as a medical practitioner under the provisions of the Medical Acts of the Imperial Parliament or, who was so registered but whose registration has been determined by virtue of his being no longer resident in the United Kingdom, and otherwise fulfils the conditions prescribed by this Act:
Provided that, if at any time in the opinion of the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet it is deemed necessary, the Governor acting on the

advice of Cabinet may authorize the Registrar to register as a medical practitioner under this Act, any person who shows to the satisfaction of the Governor that he is of good moral character and holds a medical or surgical degree or diploma of any university or institution in any country outside the United Kingdom which is authorized by the law of such country to grant medical or surgical degrees or diplomas, and that such degree or diploma furnishes a sufficient guarantee of the possession of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery, and he otherwise fulfils the conditions prescribed by this Act:
Provided further, that, without prejudice to section 11 a person registered by virtue of the foregoing proviso shall cease to be registered if the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet at any time thereafter, by order, declares that the necessity which was the occasion for such registration has ceased to exist. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) any person born or domiciled in Montserrat, who shows to the satisfaction of the Governor that he is of good moral character and holds a medical or surgical degree, diploma or qualification of any university or institution of the United States of America or of the Dominion of Canada and that such degree, diploma or qualification furnishes a sufficient guarantee of the possession of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery, and otherwise fulfils the conditions prescribed by this Act, shall be entitled to be registered as a medical practitioner under this Act:
Provided—
(a) that the medical degree, diploma or qualification was obtained by examination after attending a prescribed medical course; and
(b) that the medical course was attended and the degree, diploma or qualification obtained within the period between 1 September, 1939, and 1 January, 1952; and
(c) that the degree, diploma or qualification is registrable in the country in which it was obtained.
(Amended by Acts 7 of 1965)
Naval and Military Medical Officers
18. All medical officers of Her Majesty’s Navy, Army or Air Force serving in Montserrat on full pay shall be deemed to be registered under this Act.
Rights of registered practitioners
19. (1) Every person registered as a medical practitioner shall be entitled to practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery in any part of Montserrat, and to demand and recover in any court of competent jurisdiction his reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visit, and the cost of any medicine or other medical or surgical appliances, rendered or supplied by him to his patients.

(2) No person shall be entitled to recover any charge in a court for any medical or surgical advice or attendance or for the performance of any operation, or for any medicine which he has both prescribed and supplied, unless he is registered as a medical practitioner under this Act.
Offences by unregistered persons
20. Any person who, not being registered as a medical practitioner under this Act, shall—
(a) practise medicine or surgery or perform any surgical operation or give any medical opinion or advice, or prescribe any medical or surgical treatment within Montserrat, in respect of which he shall demand or receive any fee or gratuity, or any remuneration, profit or compensation under pretext of services rendered, loss of time, travelling or other expenses, or under any other pretext whatsoever; or
(b) hold himself out or pretend to be or take or use the name or title of physician, surgeon, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine or practitioner in medicine, or take or assume any other step, title, addition, designation or description implying that he is qualified to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery under this Act, or that he is recognized by law as a physician or surgeon or licentiate in medicine or surgery, or practitioner in medicine,
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $240 for the first offence, and to a fine of $480 for the second or any subsequent offence.
Validity of certificates
21. No certificate required by any Act now in force or that may hereafter be passed, from any physician or other medical practitioner shall be valid unless the person signing the same be registered under this Act.

PART 3
DENTISTS
Definition of the practice of dentistry
22. For the purposes of this Part, the practice of dentistry shall be deemed to include the performance of any such operation and the giving of any such treatment, advice, or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists, and any person who performs any operation or gives any treatment, advice or attendance on or to any person as preparatory to, or for the purposes of, or in connection with the fitting, insertion, or fixing of artificial teeth, shall be deemed to have practised dentistry within the meaning of this Act.

Registration of dentists
23. No person, unless duly registered as a dentist under the provisions of this Act, shall take or use the name or title of dentist (either alone or in combination with any other word or words), of dental practitioner, or any name, title, addition or description, implying that he is registered under this Act, or that he is a person specially qualified to practise dentistry.
Offences by unregistered persons
24. Any person, not being registered as a dentist under this Act, who shall—
(a) take or use any such name, title, addition or description as aforesaid, or any addition to a name, designation or description, whether expressed in words, or by letters or partly in words and partly in letters; or
(b) practise or hold himself out whether directly or by implication, as practising or entitled to practise dentistry;
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $240 for the first offence and to a fine of $480 for the second or any subsequent offence:
Provided that, nothing in this section shall operate to prevent—
(i) the practice of dentistry by a registered medical practitioner; or
(ii) the extraction of teeth by a duly registered chemist and druggist with the application of local anaesthetics other than cocaine, if authorized in writing so to do by the Governor; or
(iii) the performance of any minor dental work by anyone under the direct personal supervision of a registered dentist.
Qualifications necessary for registration
25. The following persons shall be entitled to be registered as dentists under this Act, that is to say—
(a) any person who at the commencement of this Act is in actual practice in Montserrat and is the holder of a certificate from the Governor under section 4 of the Medical Consolidation Act hereby repealed;
(b) any person who shows to the satisfaction of the Governor that he is of good moral character, and otherwise fulfils the conditions prescribed by this Act, and who—
(i) holds any diploma or licence from any university, college or incorporated society in Great Britain or Ireland having authority to grant the same, and is by law entitled to

practise dental surgery or dentistry in Great Britain or Ireland; or
(ii) holds a certificate from a British possession or a foreign country recognized for the time being as furnishing a sufficient guarantee of the possession of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of dental surgery or dentistry:
Provided that, the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet, may, by authority in writing, permit the performance of any minor dental work of a kind specified in such authority, in any island forming part of Montserrat where no registered dentist is available, by any person whom he considers to be competent to perform such work, subject to such conditions as the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may think fit. Any conditions imposed on the granting of any such authority shall be endorsed thereon, and any person contravening the same shall be guilty of an offence.
(Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
No recovery of fees by unregistered person
26. No person shall be entitled to recover any fees or charge in any court for the performance of dental attendance or advice unless he is duly registered as a dentist under this Act or is a registered medical practitioner, or is empowered to charge fees for his services under any authority granted by the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet under the preceding section. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
PART 4
OPTICIANS
No person to practise sight-testing unless registered
27. No person, unless duly registered as an optician under the provisions of this Act, shall practise sight-testing in Montserrat either for or without reward or carry on business as an optician or take or use the title of optician (either alone or in combination with any other word or words) or name, title, addition or description implying that he is registered under this Act or that he is a person specially qualified to practise sight-testing.
Persons entitled to be registered
28. The following persons, upon satisfying the Governor by documentary or other evidence that they are of good moral character and of their right to be registered and upon payment of the prescribed fee, shall be entitled to be registered as opticians under this Act namely—
(a) any person qualified or entitled to practise sight-testing in the United Kingdom under any Act for the time being in force or

who holds the Sight-Testing Diploma of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers or the British Optical Association, both of London, England;
(b) any person who holds a diploma, licence or certificate granted to him by any university college or institution in a British possession or foreign country recognised by the Governor as furnishing a sufficient guarantee of the possession of requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of sight-testing:
Provided that, the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may direct the Registrar, to enter in the Medical Register without payment of any fee, the name of any person who at the commencement of this Act has been resident in Montserrat for not less than five years, and also is or has been for not less than 5 years bona fide engaged in the practice of sight-testing in Montserrat.
(Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
Evidence of practice of sight-testing
29. The use of test lenses, spectacles, trial frames, ophthalmoscope, retinoscope or any apparatus that may be used to measure refraction, or visual acuity, or muscular equilibrium, shall be deemed conclusive evidence of the practice of sight-testing.
Registered optician entitled to recover charges
30. Every person registered as an optician under this Act shall be entitled to practise sight-testing in Montserrat and to demand and recover in any court of competent jurisdiction reasonable charges for professional services or optical aid rendered by such person, and the cost of merchandise supplied by him; and no person, unless he is so registered, shall be entitled to recover any charge or fee in any court for performing any act or giving any advice as an optician.
Offences
31. Any person who—
(a) not being registered as an optician under this Act shall use or take the name or title or hold himself out or pretend to be an optometrist, optician or doctor or professor of optometry or any name, title, description or addition whether expressed in words or letters or both implying such qualifications or that he is a person specially qualified to sight-testing; or
(b) whether registered under this Act or not, and not being a registered medical practitioner, assumes the title of oculist or eyesight specialist, or uses or causes to be used in connection with his business, trade, calling or profession, any written words, titles, initials, additions or abbreviations which are intended to represent or may reasonably cause any person to believe that he is qualified to practise medical or surgical treatment of the eye; or

(c) whether registered under this Act or not, and not being a registered medical practitioner or acting under the instructions of a registered medical practitioner, administers any drug for the purpose of paralysing the accommodation of the eye or otherwise for facilitating the measurement of the powers of vision, or treats any disease of the eye by use of drugs; or
(d) contravenes the provisions of section 27;
shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine of $240 for the first offence, and to a fine of $480 for the second or any subsequent offence.
Exemptions
32. (1) Nothing in this Part shall extend to prejudice or in any way affect registered medical practitioners.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall operate so as to prohibit—
(a) any registered chemist and druggist from dispensing, selling or supplying any drugs; or
(b) any wholesale dealer from supplying frames, ophthalmic lenses, or spectacles in the ordinary course of wholesale business; or
(c) any person from selling from a permanent place of business, and otherwise than in compliance with a prescription given by a registered medical practitioner, or a registered optician, spectacles kept in stock in a state ready for use.
PART 5
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS
No person to practise as druggist unless registered
33. (1) No person, unless duly registered as a chemist and druggist under the provisions of this Act, shall practise as a chemist or take or use the title of chemist or druggist or pharmaceutical chemist or pharmaceutist or pharmacist or dispensing chemist or dispensing druggist or any name, title or sign implying that he is registered under this Act, or that he is a person qualified to practise as a chemist and druggist.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine of $240 for the first offence and to a fine of $480 for the second or any subsequent offence.
Qualifications for registration
34. The following persons shall be entitled to be registered as chemists and druggists under this Act, that is to say—

(a) any person possessing a diploma or certificate entitling him to practise as a pharmaceutical chemist or as a chemist and druggist or as an apothecary in any part of the United Kingdom;
(b) any person who at the commencement of this Act is the holder of a licence from the Governor under the Druggists Act hereby repealed;
(c) any person possessing a diploma or certificate entitling him to practise as a pharmaceutical chemist and druggist or as an apothecary in any British Overseas Territory if the Governor shall report to the Registrar under this Act that the documents evidencing the qualifications of any such person and produced by him furnish sufficient guarantee of his knowledge and skill; (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(d) any person producing to the Registrar a certificate of competency issued with the approval of the Governor by any registered medical practitioner or practitioners appointed by the Governor under section 35 to conduct an examination for such certificate.
Procedure to be followed by applicants for certificates of competency
35. (1) Any person desiring to obtain a certificate of competency under this Act may apply in writing for that purpose to the Registrar, submitting with his application, certificates of his—
(a) moral character and respectability;
(b) having attained the age of twenty one years;
(c) general education;
(d) having been engaged for at least three years in the study of pharmacy, the last of which must have been devoted to dispensing work under a registered medical practitioner or chemist and druggist.
(2) If such certificates shall be found satisfactory, the Registrar shall, upon payment of the prescribed examination fee, inform the Governor of the applicant’s request for a certificate of competency, and the Governor shall thereupon appoint a registered medical practitioner or more than one registered medical practitioner (if available) to examine the applicant as to his fitness to be entrusted with the sale of drugs and poisons, as to his special knowledge of the same, and as to his ability to prepare and make up medicines and prescriptions.
(3) The examination shall be conducted in accordance with the Examination of Chemists and Druggists Rules, and the provisions of these Rules shall apply accordingly to any examination held under the powers conferred by subsection (2).

(4) After the completion of such examination the registered medical practitioner or practitioners appointed to examine the applicant shall, in case the applicant has passed the examination and has satisfied him or them, as the case may be, that he is a fit and proper person to practise as a chemist and druggist, issue to such applicant with the approval of the Governor a certificate of competency in the form set out in Schedule B and forward to the Registrar under this Act a duplicate of such certificate, and the Governor shall direct the Registrar to register him upon payment of the prescribed fee.
Exemption
36. Nothing in this Part shall operate to prevent any registered medical practitioner from compounding, dispensing or selling medicines by retail.
PART 6
SALE OF DRUGS AND POISONS
Prohibition of sale of drugs by unregistered person
37. (1) No person shall keep open any shop for selling, retailing, dispensing or compounding, or shall sell, retail, dispense or compound medicines, drugs or poisons, unless those medicines, drugs or poisons are sold, retailed, dispensed or compounded, in a shop which is under the immediate personal control, management and supervision of a duly registered chemist and druggist, employed therein for the purpose, who is not acting in a similar capacity for any other person or in any other shop, and unless the medicines, drugs or poisons aforesaid are sold, retailed, dispensed, or compounded, by or under the direct charge and supervision of a registered chemist and druggist:
Provided that, nothing in this section shall be deemed to restrict the right of any person to sell any patent or proprietary medicines in the same package, bottle, box or other container, and under wrapper or cover, as imported into Montserrat, properly secured and bearing the seal, name or trade mark of the proprietor, inventor or manufacturer thereof and directions for their use, and any household or domestic medicines of a non-poisonous nature, and medicines known as quinine, senna, epsom salts, and castor oil: And provided that, the sale of any class of patent or proprietary medicines by unregistered persons may at any time be prohibited by the Governor by Order in Cabinet. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(2) The registered person by or under whose supervision any drugs or poisons are dispensed or compounded shall write, on a label on the bottle or other package containing the drugs or poison, his name or initials; and any label attached to the bottle or package and having the name or initials of any registered person written thereon, shall be prima facie evidence in any case that the drugs or poison were or was dispensed or compounded by him or under his supervision.

(3) The person by or in whose name any open shop aforesaid is kept, shall see that the provisions of the preceding subsection are complied with in respect of all drugs or poisons sent from his shop.
Sign on shop for sale of drugs
38. (1) Any person having or keeping open any shop for the sale of drugs and poisons shall have over the principal entrance of the shop, painted in legible characters at least one inch each in length, the name of the registered chemist and druggist employed therein, with the addition of the words “Registered Chemist and Druggist”.
(2) Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $48.
Refusal to dispense. Improper or negligent conduct
39. If any person who is a registered chemist and druggist at any time—
(a) wilfully refuses to mix, compound or prepare or to sell, put to sale or dispense to any person any drug or any appliance or thing whatsoever used in medical treatment and contained in his shop or premises or in the shop or premises of his employer (as the case may be); or
(b) deliberately or negligently, falsely, fraudulently or unduly makes, mixes, compounds, prepares, or gives or sells, puts to sale or dispenses any drug appliance or thing whatsoever directed by any prescription, order or receipt signed with the name or with the initials in his own handwriting of any duly qualified medical practitioner,
he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
Prescriptions to be numbered and filed
40. (1) Every person who is a registered chemist and druggist shall—
(a) number each medical prescription which shall be brought to his establishment or to the establishment of his employer (as the case may be) to be made up;
(b) file such medical prescription, or, in the event of the person for whom the prescription was given desiring to retain the original prescription and such prescription does not contain any dangerous substances or quantities of any substance which would make it inadvisable for the qualified druggist to part with the same, a true copy thereof;
(c) register in a book the number and date of each medical prescription made up on his establishment, or on the establishment of his employer (as the case may be), the name of the person for whom, and the name of the medical practitioner by whom the same was given, the particulars of every such

prescription, and the directions which accompanied the medicine.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of this section shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
Substances to be deemed poisons
41. (1) The several articles named and described in Schedule C shall be deemed to be poisons within the meaning of this Act.
(2) The Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may at any time hereafter declare by order, that any other article, not mentioned or included in Schedule C shall be deemed to be a poison within the meaning of this Act; and such article shall be accordingly added to such Schedule and classified in such part thereof as the Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may by such order direct. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(3) The Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may by order amend Schedule C by declaring that any articles included in the said Schedule shall thenceforth be excluded therefrom or by altering or modifying the description of any article included in the said Schedule. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
Prohibition of sale of poison to person under sixteen
42. No person shall sell any poison to anyone under sixteen years of age unless prescribed by a legally qualified medical practitioner, and any person offending against this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $24.
Restriction on sale of poison
43. (1) No person shall sell any poison either by wholesale or retail unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper or cover in which the poison is contained is distinctly marked by a label stating the name of the article and the word “poison” and the name and address of the seller of the poison, and in the case of a preparation containing a poison as one of its ingredients stating in addition thereto the quantity of that poison in each dose of the preparation; and no person shall sell any poison named in Part 1 of Schedule C to any person unknown to the seller unless introduced by someone known to both parties; and on every sale of the article the seller shall, before delivery, enter or cause to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose in the form set out in Schedule D, the date of sale, name and address of purchaser, name and quantity of the article sold, and the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, and to the entry the signature of the purchaser and of the introducer, if any, shall be affixed:
Provided that—
(a) where the purchaser is a registered medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon or dentist, an order signed by the purchaser may be accepted in place of the signature in the book aforesaid,

and the seller shall enter therein the words “signed order” and retain the order for a period of two years; and
(b) in cases of emergency, any poison named in Part 1 of Schedule C or hereafter added to it, may be, on the written undertaking of a registered medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon or dentist, to furnish a signed order therefor within twenty four hours, sold without the immediate requirement of the signed order or of the purchaser’s signature in the book.
(2) Any person selling poisons otherwise than as provided under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $24 for the first offence and $48 for the second or any subsequent offence.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the person on whose behalf any sale is made by an apprentice or servant shall be deemed to be the seller.
(4) This section shall not apply to sales by wholesale to retail dealers in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing, or to any article when forming part of the ingredients of any medicine dispensed by or under the supervision of any person registered under this Act, but the medicine shall be labelled in the manner aforesaid with the name and address of the seller and the ingredients thereof shall be entered with the name and address of the person to or for whom it is sold or delivered in a book to be kept for that purpose.
(5) No person shall sell any arsenic unmixed with other drugs unless before the sale thereof it is mixed with soot or indigo in the proportion of one ounce of soot, or half an ounce of indigo, at the least, to one pound of the arsenic, and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity: Provided that, where arsenic is stated by the purchaser to be required for some purpose for which that admixture would, according to the representation of the purchaser, render it unfit, the arsenic may be sold without the admixture in a quantity of not less than ten pounds at any time.
Penalty for false information
44. If any person purchasing any poison gives false information to the person selling the same in relation to the particulars which such last mentioned person is hereby authorized to enquire into of such purchaser, or if any person shall sign his name as a witness to a sale of poison to a person unknown to the person so signing as a witness, every person so offending shall for every such offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $96.
Prohibition of sale or delivery of poison by uncertified shop assistant
45. (1) No poison shall be sold, dispensed or delivered by any shop assistant, or apprentice or other person except under the immediate supervision of a registered chemist and druggist or medical practitioner.
(2) Any shop assistant, or apprentice or other person contravening this section, and any person who keeps open any shop for the sale of drugs and poisons and the registered chemist and druggist by or under whose supervision any drugs or poisons are dispensed or compounded thereat, who permits or

suffers any shop assistant, apprentice or other person to contravene this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $24.
Duty of druggist where excessive dose of poison prescribed
46. Any chemist and druggist who receives a prescription in which the maximum dose of any poisonous drug as laid down in the British pharmacopœia has been exceeded, shall not dispense the prescription unless that dose is specially initialed by the prescriber, but may reduce the dose, or without delay refer the prescription to the prescriber to be initialed if correct before proceeding to dispense it.
Label on container of patent or proprietary medicine
47. No patent or proprietary medicine shall be sold unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which that medicine is contained is distinctly labelled with the proportion of alcohol (if any) and of any of the substances or any of the preparations, derivatives, or salts of those substances (if any) mentioned in the Schedule C, contained in the medicine.
Prohibition of sale of unfit drugs
48. (1) No person having or keeping open any shop for the sale of drugs or medicines shall sell or offer for sale any drug or medicine which is unfit for use.
(2) Any person offending against the provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $48, in addition to and irrespective of any penalty to which he may be liable in case he shall not be registered under this Act.
Inspection of drugs and books
49. (1) It shall be lawful for any police officer or a government medical officer to enter the shop or store of any person registered as a chemist and druggist, or employing a person registered as a chemist and druggist under this Act, for the purpose of inspecting the medicines, drugs and poisons therein, and the sale of poisons book and such other books or records as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with, and to seize any medicines, drugs or poisons appearing to be stale, unwholesome, adulterated or unfit for use.
(2) The medicines, drugs or poisons so seized shall be submitted as soon as practicable to two registered medical practitioners for examination and if in their opinion the same are stale, unwholesome, adulterated or unfit for use they shall be destroyed, without compensation to the owner.
(3) Any person who shall obstruct or hinder any police officer or other person charged with the execution of any duty under this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

Regulations
50. (1) The Governor acting on the advice of Cabinet may make regulations for controlling and regulating the possession and sale of poisons and for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act. (Amended by Act 9 of 2011)
(2) The regulations made under this section may provide amongst other things—
(a) for regulating the possession of poisons;
(b) for regulating the sale of poisons;
(c) for fixing the quantities of poison which wholesale or retail dealers or other persons may respectively keep;
(d) for prohibiting or subjecting to conditions the possession and sale of poison in any shop or place where articles of food are sold or exposed for sale;
(e) for prescribing the marks which wholesale or retail dealers shall place on vessels or cases containing poison in the ordinary course of wholesale or retail dealing;
(f) for prescribing the books to be kept and entries to be made therein by wholesale or retail dealers when dealing wholesale or retail with poisons;
(g) for every other purpose which may be deemed necessary for controlling and regulating the possession and sale of poisons.
Penalties
51. Any person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of this Act or of any order or regulation made thereunder, or does anything contrary to the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of an offence, and shall in cases where a penalty is not specifically imposed by this Act be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $96:
Provided always that, nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any person from being liable to any other penalty, damages or punishment to which he would have been subject if this Act had not been passed.
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SCHEDULE A
(Section 6(4))
MEDICAL ACT
MONTSERRAT
No. ……………
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
It is hereby certified that …………………………………………..……………..
of ………………………………..… has been duly registered as entitled to practise as
a ………………………………………….. in Montserrat under the provisions of the
Medical Act.
Dated …………………………..
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Registrar
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SCHEDULE B
(Section 35)
MEDICAL ACT
MONTSERRAT
No. ……………
CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY
It is hereby certified that ………………………………………………………….
of ………………………………………………. has been duly examined and is duly
qualified to be registered as a chemist and druggist under the provisions of the
Medical Act.
Dated ………………………………..
…………………………………
Examiners
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SCHEDULE C
(Sections 41, 43 and 47)
PART I
ARSENIC, and its preparations, except preparations for use exclusively in agriculture or
horticulture for the destruction of insects, fungi, or bacteria, or as a sheep wash or
sheep dip, if the preparations are (1) contained in a closed package or vessel
distinctly labelled with a notice of the special purpose for which the preparation is
intended; and (2) sold upon an order in writing given by or on behalf of a person,
firm or body corporate known to the vendor; and (3) purchased for the purpose of
the trade or profession of such person, firm or body corporate.
ACONITE, Aconitine and their preparations.
ALKALOIDS, all poisonous alkaloids not specifically named in this schedule, and their
salts, and all poisonous derivatives of alkaloids.
ATROPINE, and its salts, and their preparations.
BELLADONNA, and all preparations or admixtures (except belladonna plaisters)
containing 0.1 or more per cent. of belladonna alkaloids.
CANNABIS (the dried flowering or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant of cannabis sativa)
and the resins prepared therefrom.
CANTHARIDES and its poisonous derivatives.
COCA, any preparation or admixture of, containing 0.1 or more per cent. of coca
alkaloids.
CORROSIVE sublimate.
CYANIDE of potassium, and all poisonous cyanides and their preparations.
DIAMORPHINE (also known as Heroin) and all preparations or admixtures containing 0.1
per cent of diamorphine.
DIETHYL-BARBITURIC ACID, and other alkyl, aryl or metallic derivatives of barbituric
acid whether described as veronal, proponal, medinal or by any other trade name,
mark or designation and all poisonous urethanes and ureides.
DIGITALIN and all other poisonous constituents of Digitalis.
ECGONINE and all preparations or admixtures containing 0.1 per cent. Of Ecgonine.

EMETIC TARTAR and all preparations or admixtures containing one or more per cent.
Emetic tartar.
ERGOT OF RYE and preparations of ergots.
LEAD in combination with Oleic Acid, or other higher fatty acids, whether sold as
Diachylon or under any other designation (except machine-spread plasters).
NUX VOMICA and all preparations and admixtures containing 0.2 or more per cent. of
strychnine.
OPIUM and all preparations or admixtures containing 0.2 or more per cent. of morphine.
PICROTOXIN
PRUSSIC ACID and all preparations or admixtures containing 0.1 or more per cent. of
prussic acid.
SAVIN and its oil, and all preparations or admixtures containing savin or its oil.
SULPHONAL and its homologues, whether described as Trional, Tetronal or by any other
trade mark or designation.
STROPHANTHIN, and all other poisonous constituents of Strophanthus.
TOBACCO, any preparations or admixtures containing the poisonous alkaloids of tobacco
other than—
(a) Tobacco prepared for smoking and snuff; and
(b) Preparations or admixtures of tobacco for use in agriculture or
horticulture for the destruction of insects, fungi, and bacteria, if the preparations
are—
(i) contained in a closed package or vessel distinctly labelled with a notice
of the special purpose for which the preparation is intended; and
(ii) sold upon an order in writing given by or on behalf of a person, firm or
body corporate known to the vendor; and
(iii) purchased for the purpose of the trade or profession of such person, firm
or body corporate.


PART II
ALMONDS, essential oil of, unless deprived of prussic acid.
THE AMPHETAMINES (beta-aminopropylbenzene and beta-aminoisopropylbenzene)
except in a form and in a container intended for use as in inhaler.
ANTIMONAL wine.
ATEBRIN.
BARIUM, salts of, except BARIUM SULPHATE.
CANTHARIDES, tincture and all vesicating liquid preparations or admixtures of.
CARBOLIC acid, and liquid preparations of carbolic acid, and its homologues containing
more than 3 per cent. of those substances, except preparations for use as sheep wash
or for any other purpose in connection with agriculture or horticulture, contained in
a closed vessel distinctly labelled with the word “Poisonous”, the name and address
of the seller, and a notice of the special purposes for which the preparations are
intended.
CHLORAL hydrate.
CHLOROFORM, and all preparations or admixtures containing more than 20% of
chloroform.
DIGITALIS.
MERCURIC IODINE.
MERCURIC SULPHOCYANIDE.
NITROBENZINE and its derivatives.
OXALIC ACID.
PLASMOQUIN (or Plasmochin).
POPPIES, all preparations of, excepting red poppy petals and syrup of red poppies
(papaver rhœas).
PRECIPITATE, red, and all oxides of mercury.
PRECIPITATE, white.
STROPHANTHUS.

ZINC CHLORIDE, and liquid preparations of zinc chloride, except preparations intended
to be used for soldering or other purely industrial purpose, provided that, they are
contained in closed vessels labelled with the word “Poisonous” and bearing the
name and address of the seller and a notice of the special purpose for which the
preparations are intended.
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SCHEDULE D
(Section 43)
Date
Name and
address of
purchaser
Name and
quantity of
poison sold
Purpose for
which it is
required
Signature
of purchaser
of person
introducing
purchaser

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SCHEDULE OF FEES
(Section 2)
$ ¢
1. For registration as a Medical Practitioner … … … … … … 25.20
2. " " " a Dentist … … … … … … … … … 15.12
3. " " " an Optician … … … … … … … … 15.12
4. " " " a Chemist and Druggist … … … … … … 10.08
5. Examination for a Certificate of Competency … … … … … 5.04
6. For registration of any additional qualification … … … … … 1.20
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EXAMINATION OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS RULES – SECTION 35
(S.R.O. L.I. 19/1939)
Short title
1. These Rules may be cited as the Examination of Chemists and Druggists
Rules.
Registration prior to application
2. Any person intending to make application pursuant to section 35(1) of the
Medical Act, shall register the name of the chemist and druggist or of the medical
practitioner under whom he proposes to engage in the study of pharmacy prior to the
commencement of such study except in cases of persons already engaged in such
study at the coming into force of these rules.
Time of examination
3. The examination of the applicant shall be held within one month of the receipt
by the Governor of the request of the Registrar pursuant to section 35(2) of the
Medical Act.
Examination
4. (1) The examination shall be written, oral and practical and shall be held at
such time and place as the Governor shall appoint.
(2) The subjects of the examination shall be Pharmacy and Materia Medica
and shall include the law on the subject of sale of drugs and poisons contained in Part
6 of the Medical Act, and of the applicant’s knowledge of the poisons contained in
Schedule C Parts 1 and 2 of the said Act, the symptoms produced by each poison and
the appropriate antidote in each case.
Minimum pass percentage
5. (1) In order to be entitled to a certificate of competency applicants must
obtain at least 66 23% qualifying marks in each subject.
(2) If an applicant fails to qualify the Governor may in his discretion allow
such applicant to be further examined subject nevertheless to the provisions of rule 6.
Limit of examinations
6. No applicant may sit on more than three occasions for the examination.
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