# General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Paragraph 49: Prescribing

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) In the course of treating a patient to whom he is providing treatment under these terms of service, a doctor shall not order on a prescription form a drug or other substance specified in Schedule 10 but may otherwise prescribe such a drug or other substance for that patient in the course of treatment.
(2) In the course of treating such a patient a doctor shall not order on a prescription form a drug specified in an entry in column 1 of Schedule 11 unless—
(a) that patient is a person of a description mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule opposite that entry;
(b) that drug is prescribed for that patient only for the purpose specified in column 3 of that Schedule opposite that entry; and
(c) the doctor endorses the face of the form with the reference “S.11”,
but may otherwise prescribe such a drug for that patient in the course of that treatment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/380/schedule/2/paragraph/49 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-49
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