s 21 Group B Poisons
(1) Group B Poison shall not be sold or supplied by retail to any person except— (a) where the sale or supply of such poison, if it had been a Group A Poison, would have been authorized under section 20; (b) by a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist Division I or veterinary officer selling or supplying the same in accordance with section 19; or (c) by a licensed pharmacist, as a dispensed medicine on and in accordance with a prescription prescribed by a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist or veterinary officer in the form required by subsection (2) and when supplied in accordance with this Act and of any regulations made thereunder relating to such sale or supply on a prescription. Form of prescription for Group B Poison (2) Every prescription for any Group B Poison prescribed by a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist, or registered veterinary officer shall— (a) be in writing signed and dated by the prescriber thereof; (b) state the address of the prescriber; (c) state the name and address of the patient or, in the case of a prescription by a veterinary officer, the name and address of the person to whom such medicine is to be delivered; (d) indicate the total amount of medicine to be supplied and the dose; and (e) specify the number of times (not exceeding three) the medicine may be dispensed and, if dispensed more than once, at what intervals. (3) No person shall sell or supply by retail any Group B Poison on a prescription which does not comply with all the requirements of subsection (1) or which contravenes subsection (5) or shall sell or supply such poison otherwise than in accordance with the terms of such prescription. (4) Every person selling or supplying any Group B Poison on a prescription shall, at the time of selling or supplying the same, endorse upon the face of the prescription, above the signature of the prescriber, his name and address and the date on which such poison or medicine was sold or supplied. (5) No prescription for any Group B Poison shall be written wholly or partly in code or in such manner that it is not readily decipherable and capable of being dispensed by any pharmacist. (6) Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing subsection of this section, if it shall appear to the seller or supplier that any medicine is required urgently and that it is impossible without unreasonable delay to obtain a prescription complying with the requirements of subsection (1), it shall be lawful for the seller or supplier, after making an entry to that effect in his prescription book, upon the verbal or telephoned instructions of a medical practitioner, personally known to him, to sell or supply such poison without such prescription: Provided that in every such case the seller or supplier shall take all necessary steps to obtain, and the prescriber shall deliver, a prescription in accordance with subsection (1) within one day of the date of such sale or supply. Laws of Malaysia ACT 366 (7) Any person, selling or supplying any Group B Poison in contravention of this section, of failing or neglecting to endorse such prescription as required by subsection (4), or writing any prescription in code or otherwise in contravention of subsection (5), or failing to take any necessary step to obtain, or failing to deliver, the prescription as required by subsection (6), shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.