{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-collection-and-delivery-arrangementsexemption-order-1978/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-collection-and-delivery-arrangementsexemption-order-1978/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1421",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Collection and Delivery Arrangements—Exemption) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-collection-and-delivery-arrangementsexemption-order-1978",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exemption for certain collection and delivery arrangements",
  "text": "(1) The restrictions imposed by sections 52 and 53 of the Act shall not apply to the supply of any medicinal product for human use on premises which are not a registered pharmacy where such supply is in accordance with a prescription given by a doctor or dentist and forms part of a collection and delivery arrangement used by a person who lawfully conducts a retail pharmacy business.\n(2) In this Article “collection and delivery arrangement” means any arrangement whereby a person is enabled to take or send a prescription given by a doctor or dentist to premises other than a registered pharmacy and to collect or have collected on his behalf from such premises a medicinal product prepared or dispensed in accordance with such prescription at a registered pharmacy by or under the supervision of a pharmacist if such premises at which the medicinal product is supplied are capable of being closed by the occupier so as to exclude the public.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1421/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:28:43.192451+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."
}