{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-22/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-22/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/22/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Medical prescriptions etc.",
  "text": "(1) A contract for the supply of goods, services or digital content where the supply—\n(a) 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\n(b) is—\n(i) made under, or in connection with, a prescription or directions given by a prescriber, or\n(ii) of a medicinal product which is administered by a prescriber.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—\n“illness” means physical or mental illness;\n“medicinal product” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/ 1916);\n“prescriber”—\n(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);\n(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);\n(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”;\n(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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 22 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/22/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}