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16 Maximum number of repeats—chemotherapy drugs

(1) This section determines the maximum number of occasions an authorised prescriber may, in one chemotherapy prescription, direct that a special arrangement supply of a dose of a chemotherapy drug be repeated. (2) If only one number is mentioned in the column of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 headed “Number of Repeats” in relation to the chemotherapy drug, that number is the maximum number of occasions for all purposes. (3) If more than one number is mentioned in the column of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 headed “Number of Repeats” in relation to the chemotherapy drug, then: (a) if a purposes code is mentioned in the column of the table headed “Purposes” in relation to a number—that number is the maximum number of occasions for the purposes mentioned in the table in Part 1 of Schedule 3 for that purposes code; and (b) if no purposes code is mentioned in the column in relation to a number—that number is the maximum number of occasions for all purposes other than purposes to which paragraph (a) applies.