# The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004, Paragraph 54: Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980


In the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980, in regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2)(a)—
(a) for the definition of “district nurse/health visitor prescriber”, substitute—
““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;”;
(b) in the definition of “extended formulary nurse prescriber”, in sub-paragraph (a), after “nurse”, insert “or registered midwife”;
(c) for the definition of “first level nurse” substitute—
““first level nurse” means a nurse registered in sub-part 1 of the Nurses' Part of the professional register;”;
(d) in the definition of “professional register”, for “pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to”, substitute “under article 5 of”;
(e) in the definition of “relevant register”, in sub-paragraph (a), after “nurse”, insert “or registered midwife”;
(f) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”, omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a) and after sub-paragraph (b) insert—
“or
(c) a registered midwife,”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1771/schedule/paragraph/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-consequential-amendments-nursing-and-midwifery-order-2004/schedule/paragraph-54
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