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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-by-eea-practitioners-amendment-no-2-regulations-2010/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2785",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing by EEA Practitioners) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing by EEA Practitioners) Regulations 2008 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 substitutes the definition of “controlled drug” to ensure that prescriptions for controlled drugs included in Schedules 1 to 3 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 or Schedules 1 to 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 are automatically excluded from being dispensed in the UK. EEA prescriptions for controlled drugs listed in Schedules 4 or 5 to those respective Regulations can be lawfully dispensed against provided the conditions contained in the principal Regulations are met.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 7 of the principal Regulations to ensure that the emergency sale or supply of certain controlled drugs is permitted where this is pursuant to a request by an EEA health professional or where such treatment has previously been prescribed by such a person.\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as there is no significant impact on the private and voluntary sectors.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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