Govemment or Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council or Zilla Parishad hospital, dispensary or medical institution, with at least one registered medical practitioner possessing a minimum qualification of a degree in medicine or dentistry and who has undergone training in pain relief and palliative care for prescription of essential narcotic drugs for pain relief and palliative care or training in opioid substitution therapy for prescription of essential narcotic drugs for treatment of opioid dependence, who shall prescribe and dispense essential narcotic drugs, shall be deemed to be a recognised medical institution under these rules for possessing, dispensing or selling of essential narcotic drugs for medical purpose.
Explanation.-For the removal of doubts it is hereby clarified that Government or Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council or Zilla Parishad hospital, dispensary and medical institution, shall be exempt only from making application to the Controller of Drugs for recognition as recognised medical
1. Chapter VB (containing rule 52N to rule 522 and rule 522A) inserted by G.S.R. 359(E), dated 5th May, 2015 (w.e.l. 5-5-2015).
82 The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Rules, 1985 [Rule 52N institution, but all other provisions of this Chapter shall be equally applicable to such deemed recognised medical institution as are applicable to other recognised medical institution.
52-0. Recognition of medical institutions.-(1) A medical institution seeking, to be a recognised medical institution or renewal of such recognition, under these rules for possessing, dispensing or selling essential narcotic drugs for medical purposes shall apply in Form No. 3F to the Controller of Drugs.
(2) The Controller of Drugs, on receipt of application referred to in sub-rule
(1) may, subject to any inquiry which may be necessary, issue a Certificate of Recognition in Porrn No. 3G and such certificate shall be issued within sixty days from the date of receipt of such application.
(3) In case the Certificate of Recognition is not issued within the period mentioned in sub-rule (2), the Controller of Drugs or any other officer authorised by him in this regard shall inform the applicant the reasons thereof.
(4) The Certificate of Recognition shall be issued for a period not exceeding three years al a tin1e.
(5) For renewal of the recognition referred to in sub-rule (1), application shall be made to the Controller of Drugs at least sixty days before the expiry of previous recognition.
(6) The Certificate of Recognition shall be obtained within a period of one hundred and eighty days from the date of commencement of these rules.
(7) In the event of a change in the constitution of a recognised medical institution, the current recognition shall be deemed to be valid for a maximum period of ninety days from the date on which the change takes place.