Regulation 6 Exemption: medical purposes
Regulation 3(1) does not apply to—
a person that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for use for medical purposes by or under the direction of a healthcare professional;
a healthcare professional that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes; or
an NHS appliance contractor that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes.
In this regulation—
“healthcare professional” means a person who is a registered member of a profession that is regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002f1;
“medical purposes” means the purposes of preventative medicine, medical diagnosis, medical research and the provision of medical care and treatment;
“NHS appliance contractor” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013f2;
“registered”, in relation to a regulatory body, means registered in a register that the body maintains by virtue of any enactment.
Annotations
Footnotes
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2002 c. 17. Section 25(3) has been amended by paragraphs 17(2) and 17(3) of Schedule 10 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 4 to the Pharmacy Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/231), paragraph 56(b) of Schedule 15 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7) and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 4 to the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16).
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S.I. 2013/349, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.