Cap. 458 Art. 80Dispensing of a medicinal product.

(1) A pharmacist shall prepare or dispense any medicinal product required by any person presenting a prescription unless he has a justified reason of concern that the prescription is false, that the person is misusing the prescribed medicinal product, or that the medicinal product is not available or if he has professional reasons for not preparing or dispensing the prescription.

(2) Upon presentation of a prescription for a medicinal product, unless the prescriber specifically requests a particular branded product by writing "branded" or "®" on the prescription, a pharmacist can dispense the medicinal product prescribed or an equivalent medicinal product having the same chemical entity, dose, dosage form and dosage frequency as the medicinal product indicated on the prescription.

(3) When, in dispensing any medicinal product, a pharmacist discovers that there are reasons why the medicinal product should not be dispensed to the patient or that the dosage regimen indicated on the prescription goes beyond what can be considered a safe therapeutic dose, the pharmacist is bound to draw the attention thereto of the person prescribing the same and may require such person to write out in ink or in other indelible manner on the prescription a statement assuming responsibility for the prescription.

(4) The pharmacist shall assume full responsibility for the dispensing of medicinal products which do not need a prescription for dispensing to patients.