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Newfoundland Regulation 1998 Dispensing of Substitute Brand-name Drugs
Regulations (Filed
December 31, 1997) Under the
authority of subparagraph 14(l)(ii) of the Pharmaceutical
Association Act, 1994, the Minister of Health makes the following
regulations. Dated at Joan Marie
Aylward REGULATIONS Analysis 1. Short
title 2. Lower-priced
drug substitution 3. Substitution
prohibited 4. Duty
of dispenser Short title 1. These Regulations may be cited as
the Dispensing of Substitute Brand-name
Drugs Regulations. Lower-priced drug substitution 2. Where a person authorized by law to
dispense prescriptions is given a prescription directing the dispensing of a
brand of a drug ordinarily available without a prescription, the person may
dispense a substitute brand of the drug where, (a) the
substituted brand of the drug is less expensive than the brand of the drug
prescribed; and (b) the
substituted brand of the drug contains the same active ingredients as that of
the prescribed brand; and (c) the
specific generic drug category is approved for the purpose by the Newfoundland
Pharmaceutical Association and the Substitution prohibited 3. Where a prescription contains a
written direction in the handwriting of the person prescribing the drug that
the prescribed brand of the drug is not to be substituted, the person
dispensing the drug shall not make a substitution. Duty of dispenser 4. Where a brand of the drug is
substituted for the brand of the drug prescribed, the person dispensing the
drug shall ensure that the brand of the drug that is substituted contains the
same amount of the same active ingredients and in the same form as the brand
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