{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-and-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2009/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3062",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemptions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-and-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2009",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Pharmacy and General Sale Order",
  "text": "(1) The Pharmacy and General Sale Order is amended as follows.\n(2) In article 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) after the definition of “registered dietician” insert—\n““registered dispensing optician” means a person who is registered in the register of dispensing opticians maintained under section 7(b) of the Opticians Act 1989;”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 (exemptions for certain persons from sections 52 and 53)—\n(a) in Part 1 at the end add—\n“\n13. Registered dispensing opticians.\n13. Pharmacy medicines for external use containing chloramphenicol at a strength not exceeding—\n(i) 0.5 per cent in eye drops;\n(ii) 1 per cent in ointment.\n13. The sale or supply shall be only in the course of their professional practice.\n”\n(b) in Part 2 at the end add—\n“\n16. Her Majesty’s armed forces.\n16. All medicinal products.\n16. The supply shall be only so far as is necessary for the treatment of a sick or injured person or the prevention of ill-health.\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7 was amended by S.I. 2005/848, articles 2 and 7(1)(a) and (b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 12 was inserted into Part 1 of Schedule 1 by S.I. 1997/1350."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 15 was inserted into Part 2 of Schedule 1 by S.I. 2006/2807."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3062/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:01:08.715434+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."
}