# Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Paragraph 3: Medical prescriptions etc.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) A contract for the supply of goods, services or digital content where the supply—
(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
(b) is—
(i) made under, or in connection with, a prescription or directions given by a prescriber, or
(ii) of a medicinal product which is administered by a prescriber.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—
“illness” means physical or mental illness;
“medicinal product” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/ 1916);
“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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/22/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-22/paragraph-3
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