{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-227",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-227.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1916",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/227",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "227",
  "heading": "Exemption for sale or supply in hospitals",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 214(1) does not apply to the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine—\n(a) in the course of the business of a hospital; and\n(b) for the purpose of being administered (in the hospital or elsewhere) to a particular person in accordance with directions that meet the conditions in paragraph (2).\n(2) Those conditions are that the directions—\n(a) are in writing;\n(b) relate to the particular person to whom the prescription only medicine is to be administered; and\n(c) are given by a person who is an appropriate practitioner in relation to that prescription only medicine.\n(3) But such directions may be given by a supplementary prescriber only where the supplementary prescriber complies with regulations 215 (prescribing and administration by supplementary prescribers) and 216 (exceptions to regulation 215) in relation to the directions as if they were a prescription.\n(4) This regulation applies regardless of whether the directions comply with regulation 217 (requirements for prescriptions).",
  "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/227",
    "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."
}