On 24/05/2013,
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The closest version currently available is that of 20/09/2010.
No. S 525
Misuse of Drugs Act
Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2010
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 58 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall come into operation on 20th September 2010.
2. Regulation 19 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Rg 1) is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
19. A medical practitioner who attends to a person whom he considers or has reasonable grounds to suspect is a drug addict shall, within 7 days from the date of attendance, furnish to both the Director of Medical Services and the Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau the following information relating to that person, through such means as may be specified by the Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau:
(a)
name;
(b)
identity card number;
(c)
sex;
(d)
age;
(e)
address;
(f)
the drug to which the person is believed to be addicted; and
(g)
the grounds on which the medical practitioner considers or has reasonable grounds to suspect that the person is a drug addict, which may include —
(i)
the frequency and dates the medical practitioner, or any other medical practitioner working in the same hospital as him, has attended to the person;
(ii)
the physical symptoms of the person; and
(iii)
the amount and types of prescriptions requested by, or provided to, the person at the hospital in which the medical practitioner works.”.
[G.N. Nos. S 390/99; S 231/2000; S 436/2000; S 140/2001; S 492/2001; S 506/2005; S 490/2006; S 108/2007]
[MHA 112/2/0049; AG/LLRD/SL/185/2010/2 Vol. 1]