A-29.01 - Act respecting prescription drug insurance

Section 71 Disposition versions

2003-02-26

71. (Repealed).

1996, c. 32, s. 71; 2002, c. 27, s. 27.

1996-08-01

71. A review committee on the use of medications, known as the Comité de revue de l’utilisation des médicaments, is hereby established.

The review committee shall be composed of a president, a vice-president and not more than seven other members.

The members of the review committee shall be appointed by the Government as follows:

(1)  three members shall be physicians in clinical practice, of whom one shall be designated by the Collège des médecins du Québec, one by the Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec, and one by the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec, but of whom none shall hold a full-time position with those organizations;

(2)  two members shall be pharmacists in clinical practice, of whom one shall be designated by the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec and one by the Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires, but of whom neither shall hold a full-time position with those organizations;

(3)  one member shall be designated by the deans of Québec’s faculties of medicine;

(4)  one member shall be designated by the directors or deans of Québec’s schools and faculties of pharmacy;

(5)  one member shall be a pharmacist designated by the body known as the Réseau de revue d’utilisation des médicaments en établissement.

A member of the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec, designated by the Board, shall also be a member of the committee but without the right to vote.

The president and vice-president of the review committee must be either the physician designated by the Collège des médecins du Québec or the pharmacist designated by the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.

1996, c. 32, s. 71.