Narcotic Control Regulations

48 (1) In the circumstances described in subsection (2), the Minister must issue a notice to the persons and authorities specified in subsection (3) advising them that licensed dealers and pharmacists practising in the notified pharmacies must not sell or provide to the pharmacist named in the notice one or more of the following:

• (a) a narcotic, other than a verbal prescription narcotic;

• (b) a verbal prescription narcotic, other than a preparation mentioned in section 36; or

• (c) a preparation mentioned in section 36.

(2) The notice must be issued if the pharmacist named in the notice has

• (a) made a request to the Minister in accordance with section 47 to issue the notice;

• (b) contravened a rule of conduct established by the provincial professional licensing authority of the province in which the pharmacist is practising and that provincial professional licensing authority has requested the Minister in writing to issue the notice; or

• (c) been found guilty in a court of law of a designated drug offence or of an offence under these Regulations.

(3) The notice must be issued to

• (a) all licensed dealers;

• (a.1) [Repealed, SOR/2018-147, s. 14]

• (b) all pharmacies within the province in which the pharmacist named in the notice is registered and practising;

• (c) the provincial professional licensing authority of the province in which the pharmacist named in the notice is registered or entitled to practise; and

• (d) any interested provincial professional licensing authority in another province that has made a request to the Minister to issue the notice.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), the Minister may issue the notice described in subsection (1) to the persons and authorities specified in subsection (3), if the Minister, on reasonable grounds, believes that the pharmacist named in the notice

• (a) has contravened any of the provisions of sections 30 to 45 or section 70;

• (b) has, on more than one occasion, self-administered a narcotic, other than a verbal prescription narcotic, contrary to accepted pharmaceutical practice;

• (c) has, on more than one occasion, self-administered a verbal prescription narcotic, other than a preparation mentioned in section 36, contrary to accepted pharmaceutical practice;

• (d) has, on more than one occasion, provided or administered a narcotic, other than a verbal prescription narcotic, to a person who is a spouse, common-law partner, parent or child of the pharmacist, including a child adopted in fact, contrary to accepted pharmaceutical practice;

• (e) has, on more than one occasion, provided or administered a verbal prescription narcotic, other than a preparation mentioned in section 36, to a person who is a spouse, common-law partner, parent or child of the pharmacist, including a child adopted in fact, contrary to accepted pharmaceutical practice; or

• (f) is unable to account for the quantity of narcotic for which the pharmacist was responsible under these Regulations.

(5) In the circumstances described in subsection (4), the Minister must not issue the notice referred to in subsection (1) until the Minister has

• (a) consulted with the provincial professional licensing authority of the province in which the pharmacist to whom the notice relates is registered or entitled to practise;

• (b) given that pharmacist an opportunity to present reasons why the notice should not be issued and considered those reasons; and

• (c) considered

  • (i) the compliance history of the pharmacist in respect of the Act and the regulations made or continued under it, and

  • (ii) whether the actions of the pharmacist pose a significant security, public health or safety hazard, including the risk of the narcotic being diverted to an illicit market or use.