Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)

G.05.002. A person who is in charge of a hospital shall

• (a) furnish such information respecting the use of controlled drugs therein, in such form and at such times as the Minister may require;

• (b) produce to an inspector any books, records or documents required by these Regulations to be kept;

• (c) permit an inspector to make copies thereof or take extracts from such books, records and documents; and

• (d) permit an inspector to check all stocks of controlled drugs in the hospital.

• G.05.003. (1) No person in charge of a hospital shall permit a controlled drug to be sold, provided or administered except in accordance with this section.

• (2) On receipt of a prescription or a written order signed and dated by a practitioner, the person in charge of a hospital may permit a controlled drug to be administered to a person or an animal under treatment as an in-patient or out-patient of the hospital, or to be sold or provided to the person or to the person in charge of the animal.

• (3) Subject to subsection (6), the person in charge of a hospital may permit a controlled drug to be provided, for emergency purposes, to a hospital employee or a practitioner in another hospital on receipt of a written order signed and dated by a pharmacist in the other hospital or a practitioner authorized by the person in charge of the other hospital to sign the order.

• (4) Subject to subsection (6), the person in charge of a hospital may permit a controlled drug to be sold or provided, for emergency purposes, to a pharmacist on receipt of a written order signed and dated by the pharmacist.

• (5) The person in charge of a hospital may permit a controlled drug to be provided to a person employed in a research laboratory in that hospital for the purpose of research.

• (6) No person in charge of a hospital shall permit a controlled drug to be sold or provided under subsection (3) or (4) unless the signature of the pharmacist in the other hospital or of the practitioner authorized by the person in charge of the other hospital to sign an order is known to the person who sells or provides the controlled drug or has been verified.

G.05.004. A person who is in charge of a hospital shall take all steps necessary to protect controlled drugs in the hospital against loss or theft and shall report to the Minister any loss or theft of a controlled drug within 10 days of his discovery thereof.

• G.06.001. (1)  and (2) [Repealed, SOR/99-125, s. 5]

• (3) Despite anything in these Regulations, a person may, for the purpose of identification or analysis of a controlled drug in their possession, provide or deliver the drug to

  • (a) a practitioner of medicine; or

  • (b) an agent of a practitioner of medicine, where the agent has been exempted under section 56 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with respect to the possession of that controlled drug.

• (4) If an agent of a practitioner of medicine receives a controlled drug under subsection (3), they shall immediately provide or deliver it

  • (a) to the practitioner of whom he is the agent; or

  • (b) to the Minister or his agent.

• (5) A practitioner of medicine who receives a controlled drug under subsection (3) or (4) shall immediately provide or deliver it

  • (a) for the purpose of identification or analysis thereof, to a person exempted under section 56 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with respect to the possession of that controlled drug for that purpose; or

  • (b) to the Minister or his agent.