{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-amendment-regulations-2016-nisr-2016-407/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-amendment-regulations-2016-nisr-2016-407/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/407",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-amendment-regulations-2016-nisr-2016-407",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 17 (exemption for sale, supply or administration by certain persons)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 17 is amended as follows.\n(2) In the table in Part 1 (exemption from restrictions on sale and supply of prescription only medicines), after item 12 in the table insert—\n“\n13 Registered orthoptists.\n13 The following prescription only medicines-\n(a) Atropine,\n(b) Cyclopentolate,\n(c) Tropicamide,\n(d) Lidocaine with fluorescein,\n(e) Oxybuprocaine,\n(f) Proxymetacaine,\n(g) Tetracaine,\n(h) Chloramphenicol,\n(i) Fusidic acid.\n13 The sale or supply shall be only in the course of their professional practice.\n”\n(3) In the table in Part 2 (exemption from the restriction on supply of prescription only medicines), after item 11 in the table insert—\n“\n12 Registered midwives.\n12 Prescription only medicines for parenteral administration that contain-\n(a) Diamorphine,\n(b) Morphine,\n(c) Pethidine hydrochloride.\n12 The supply shall be only in the course of their professional practice.\n”\n(4) In the table in Part 4 (exemption for certain persons who sell or supply certain medicinal products), after item 12 in the table insert—\n“\n13 Registered orthoptists\n13 All medicinal products on a general sale list, all pharmacy medicines and the following prescription only medicines-\n(a) Atropine,\n(b) Cyclopentolate,\n(c) Tropicamide,\n(d) Lidocaine with fluorescein,\n(e) Oxybuprocaine,\n(f) Proxymetacaine,\n(g) Tetracaine,\n(h) Chloramphenicol,\n(i) Fusidic acid.\n13 The sale or supply shall be only in the course of their professional practice.\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part 1 was amended by S.I. 2014/1878."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Part 2 was amended by S.I. 2014/1878 and 2015/1503."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Part 4 was amended by S.I. 2013/2593."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/407/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:54:03.715500+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}