{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-child-safety-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-child-safety-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2317",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-child-safety-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions from regulation 2",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 shall not apply to the retail sale (including sale by a retail pharmacy business), or to the supply (including supply in pursuance of a prescription) in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, of relevant medicinal products by or under the supervision of a pharmacist on premises which are a registered pharmacy, if that sale or supply is—\n(a) in accordance with a prescription given by a practitioner, supplementary prescriber or nurse prescriber (“prescriber”), and it is not possible to provide the relevant medicinal products so ordered in containers that are both opaque or dark tinted and child resistant; or\n(b) at the request of a person, not being a child, who specifically requests that the relevant medicinal products not be contained in a child resistant container.\n(2) Regulation 2 shall not apply to the sale or supply of relevant medicinalproducts—\n(a) by a doctor or dentist to his—\n(i) patient; or\n(ii) patient’s carer\nin circumstances where the relevant medicinal products are for his patient;\n(b) by a doctor or dentist to, and at the request of, another prescriber for administration to a particular patient of that other prescriber; or\n(c) in the course of the business of a hospital or health centre, where the sale or supply is for the purpose of administration, whether in the hospital or health centre or elsewhere, in accordance with the directions of a prescriber.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The expression “practitioner” is defined in section 132 of the Medicines Act 1968."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2317/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:59:53.094046+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."
}