Paragraph 3 Medical prescriptions etc.I1
United Kingdom Not yet in force
A contract for the supply of goods, services or digital content where the supply—
is made for purposes relating to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, or otherwise relating to a person’s physical or mental health, and
is—
made under, or in connection with, a prescription or directions given by a prescriber, or
of a medicinal product which is administered by a prescriber.
In sub-paragraph (1)—
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“illness” means physical or mental illness;
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“medicinal product” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/ 1916);
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“prescriber”—
- (a)
in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered, in England, has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/349);
- (b)
in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered, in Wales, has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I 2020/1073 (W. 241);
- (c)
in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered, in Scotland, has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/183) but as if that definition included “a dentist”;
- (d)
in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered in Northern Ireland, has the meaning given by the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. (N.I.) 1997 No. 381).
- (a)
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. 22 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)