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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-consequential-amendments-nursing-and-midwifery-order-2004/schedule/paragraph-39",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1771",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-consequential-amendments-nursing-and-midwifery-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997",
  "text": "In the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997—\n(a) in article 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2)—\n(i) for the definition of “district nurse/health visitor prescriber”, substitute—\n““district nurse/health visitor prescriber” means a first level nurse, or a registered midwife, against whose name in the professional register there is an annotation that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances from the Nurse Prescriber’s Formulary for District Nurses and Health Visitors Appendix in the current edition of the British National Formulary”,\n(ii) in the definition of “extended formulary nurse prescriber”, in sub-paragraph (a), after “nurse”, insert “or registered midwife”,\n(iii) for the definition of “first level nurse” substitute—\n““first level nurse” means a person registered in Sub-Part 1 of the Nurses' Part of the professional register;”,\n(iv) in the definition of “professional register”, for “pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to”, substitute “under article 5 of”,\n(v) for the definition of “registered midwife”, substitute—\n““registered midwife” means a person registered in the Midwives' Part of the professional register;”,\n(vi) for the definition of “registered nurse ”, substitute—\n““registered nurse” means a person registered in the Nurses' Part of the professional register;”,\n(vii) in the definition of “relevant register”, in sub-paragraph (a), after “nurse” insert “or registered midwife”,\n(viii) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a) and after sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“or\n(c) a registered midwife,”; and\n(b) in Schedule 7, Part III (classes of individual by whom prescription only medicines may be supplied or administered), omit “Registered health visitors”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830. Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2002/549 and 2003/696."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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