Section 27
Prohibition on sale of medicinal products from automatic machines
No medicinal product shall be sold by means of an automatic machine, unless it is a medicinal product in the automatic machine section of a general sale list and complies with such conditions as may be applied.
Exemptions for medical practitioner, dentists and veterinary surgeons and in respect of herbal remedies 28.
(1)
The restrictions imposed by section 25 do not apply to the supply of a medicinal product —
(a)
by a medical practitioner or a dentist to his patient; or
(b)
by a hospital, where the product is supplied for the purpose of being administered in accordance with the directions of a medical practitioner or a dentist.
(2)
The restrictions imposed by section 25 do not apply to the supply of a medicinal product by a veterinary surgeon for administration by him or under his direction to an animal under his care.
(3)
The restrictions imposed by section 25 do not apply to anything done at premises of which the person carrying on the business in question is
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the occupier and which he is able to close so as to exclude the public, and which consists of the retail sale or the supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale of any herbal remedy where the processes to which a plant is subjected consist of drying, crushing or comminuting, with or without diluting with water.