{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-226",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-226.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1916",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/226",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "226",
  "heading": "Emergency sale etc by pharmacist: pandemic diseases",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 214(1) does not apply to the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business if conditions A and B are met.\n(2) Condition A is that the supply is made whilst a disease is, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently,—\n(a) pandemic; and\n(b) a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health.\n(3) Condition B is that the pharmacist by or under whose supervision the prescription only medicine is to be sold or supplied is satisfied—\n(a) that treatment with the prescription only medicine has on a previous occasion been prescribed by a relevant prescriber for the person to be treated with it; and\n(b) as to the dose which in the circumstances it would be appropriate for that person to take.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/regulation/226",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:34.993203+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."
}