Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006
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Amendment of section 6 of Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 (directions prohibiting prescribing, supply, etc., of controlled drugs by practitioners or pharmacists, etc., convicted of offences). |
5.— Section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 is amended— | |
(a) by inserting the following after subsection (1): | ||
“(1A) Where a relevant person has after the commencement of this subsection been convicted of— | ||
(a) an offence under this Act, or | ||
(b) an offence against the Customs Acts in relation to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug, | ||
the Minister may give a direction under subsection (2) of this section in respect of that person.”, | ||
(b) in subsection (2)(b), by substituting “or relevant person, be a direction prohibiting the pharmacist or relevant person, as the case may be, from having in the pharmacist’s or relevant person’s, as the case may be,” for “, be a direction prohibiting him from having in his”, and | ||
(c) by inserting the following after subsection (6): | ||
“(7) In this section, ‘relevant person’ means— | ||
(a) a person, not being a pharmacist, keeping open shop for the dispensing or compounding of medical prescriptions in accordance with the provisions of the Pharmacy Acts 1875 to 1977, or | ||
(b) any director, manager, secretary or other official of a person referred to in paragraph (a) of this definition which is a body corporate.”. |