{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2005/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2005/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1507",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2005",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 1 of the Pharmacy and General Sale Order",
  "text": "In article 1 of the Pharmacy and General Sale Order (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2)—\n(a) after the definition of “the Act”, insert the following definition—\n““additional supply optometrist” means a person who is registered as an optometrist, and against whose name particulars of the additional supply speciality have been entered in the relevant register;”;\n(b) for the definition of “registered ophthalmic optician”, substitute—\n““registered optometrist” means a person whose name is entered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of the Opticians Act 1989;”;\n(c) in the definition of “relevant register”—\n(i) in paragraph (b) omit “and”;\n(ii) in paragraph (c), after “that register” insert “; and”; and\n(iii) after paragraph (c), insert—\n“(d) in relation to a registered optometrist, the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of the Opticians Act 1989;”;\n(d) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—\n(i) in paragraph (c), omit “or”;\n(ii) in paragraph (d), after “radiographers: diagnostic or therapeutic,” insert “or”; and\n(iii) after paragraph (d), insert—\n“(e) a registered optometrist,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “relevant register” was inserted by S.I. 2004/1 and amended by S.I. 2004/1771 and 2005/766."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “supplementary prescriber” was inserted by S.I. 2004/1 and amended by S.I. 2004/1771 and 2005/766."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1507/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:58:08.002906+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."
}