Section 10
of Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) Regulations, 2008
Section 10
(1)
Where
{a)
a ship is required to have on board any medical store in accordance with any of the scales set out in the First and Second Schedules;
and
{b) any label required by regulation 7(1){a) to be borne by any container of any such medical store, indicates a date after which the medical store contained in it is not to be used (hereafter called the expiry date), that medical store shall be replaced at the earliest possible date after the expiry date, and in any event within 3 months of the expiry date.
(2)
Medical stores which have passed the expiry date shall, once replacements have been obtained, or after 3 months, whichever is the earlier, be disposed of. Controlled drugs shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Rg 1 of Chapter 27).
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