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(5) Every licensee shall (subject to the proviso to paragraph (ii)
of subclause (c) of clause (7) hereof) keep the records required by this
regulation in some place of security at the premises at which he is
for the time being licensed to deal in dangerous drugs, and shall so
keep every record for a period of two years following the date of the
last entry made therein, save that if he shall cease to hold a license
under these regulations he shall deliver such records to the Director-
General for custody and destruction after the expiration of the said
period of two years.
(6) Every licensee shall at all times permit any officer of the Health
Department authorized by the Minister of Health or any police officer
to inspect the records referred to in this regulation and to make copies
of any entries appearing therein.

Part II.—Registered Chemists, Hospitals, and Practitioners.

(7) Any licensee who is—
(a) A registered chemist keeping an open shop or place of business
for the compounding and dispensing of prescriptions ; or
(b) A Hospital Board, hospital manager, or dispenser or similar
officer except a Medical Superintendent to whom clause (9)
of this regulation applies ; or
(c) A practitioner who dispenses his own medicines, and who in
any case does not deal in any dangerous drug otherwise
than by retail sale and by the compounding and dispensing
of prescriptions containing dangerous drugs ;
may, instead of keeping a register in the forms prescribed by clause (1)
of this regulation, keep a Licensee’s Register consisting of—
(i) A prescription-book wherein shall be entered a record of every
sale of a dangerous drug and every prescription dispensed
which contains any portion of a dangerous drug showing
(a) the name and address of the person receiving the drug ;
(b) the name and address of the person prescribing the
drug ; (c) the proportion and total amount of the drug so
dispensed ; (d) the date on which the drug was delivered
to the person receiving the drug ; and
(ii) A register in the form numbered 7 (c) in the First Schedule
hereto wherein shall be entered with respect to all dangerous
drugs sold, distributed, dispensed, or administered by him
the particulars indicated by that form : Provided that in
the case of every registered chemist this register shall be
retained continuously as a permanent record of the said
chemist’s business.
(8) Clauses (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) of this regulation shall apply
to every person to whom clause (7) hereof applies and to the records
kept by such person.

Part III.—Medical Superintendents.

(9) Every person who is for the time being a person approved by
the Director-General for the purposes of clause (3) of Regulation 9
hereof and is for the time being the Medical Superintendent of any
hospital or other institution under the control of a Hospital Board,
shall, instead of keeping a register in the forms prescribed by clause (1)
of this regulation, keep records as follows :—
(a) A main register in the form numbered 9 in the First Schedule
hereto showing the total receipts and issues of dangerous
drugs acquired by the Hospital Board.
(b) Such number of books to be called “ Ward Books ” in the
form numbered 10 in the First Schedule hereto as is necessary
to provide separately for each ward, including as a ward
for the purposes hereof every section and separate building
under the administration of the Hospital Board and the
control of such Medical Superintendent.
(10) Every Medical Superintendent to whom clause (9) of this
regulation applies shall personally check and initial daily the entries
made in the main register relating to the transactions of the previous
day, and shall personally comply with or procure compliance with the
following requirements :—
(a) The register with all documents relating thereto shall be pre-
served in safe custody accessible only to the Medical
Superintendent and to the Secretary or Dispenser deputed
by the Medical Superintendent to have such access.

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