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433Chapter 18 – Summary of Proposals for Implementation4(4) In addition to the grounds set out in subsection 51(1) of theHealth Professions Procedural Code, a panel of the DisciplineCommittee shall find that a member has committed an act ofprofessional misconduct if the member contravenes subsections (2)or (3).5. That section 11(d) of the Naturopathy Act, 2007 be repealed.6. That section 11 of the Naturopathy Act, 2007 be amended by addingthe following section:Regulations(f) regulating the prescribing, dispensing, selling or compounding ofprescription therapeutic products or drugs by members, requiringmembers to keep prescribed records and to provide to the Ministerreports containing prescribed information respecting theprescribing, dispensing, selling or compounding of prescriptiontherapeutic products or drugs.7. That the regulations to be made under the Naturopathy Act, 2007(General) include the following provisions:- For the purposes of this section, “Designated Drug List” has themeaning given to it in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991.- A member may prescribe, dispense, sell or compound thefollowing classes of prescription therapeutic products as definedunder the Food and Drugs Act (Canada):- Amino acids,- Botanical extracts and their derivatives,- Chelating agents,- Electrolyte and fluid replacement,- Enzymes, digestive and proteolytic preparations,- Homeopathic preparations,- Bioidentical hormones,- Glandular and organ preparations,- Minerals, trace minerals and their derivatives, and- Vitamins and vitamin preparations and derivatives.- A member may prescribe the following classes of drugs:- Anti-infectives: antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasitics,antivirals,- Skin and mucous membrane agents,- CSN agents: analgesics and antipyeretics: NSAIDs.- A member may only prescribe, dispense, sell, compound or usethose prescription therapeutic products and drugs within theclasses designated in the foregoing sections that are listed in theDrug List and must prescribe, dispense, sell, compound or usethose listed prescription therapeutic products and drugs inHPRAC Critical Links January 2009