{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2005/article-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Pharmacy and General Sale Order",
  "text": "(1) In the table in Part 1 of Schedule 1—\n(a) in paragraph 2, in column 1, for “registered ophthalmic opticians”, substitute “registered optometrists”; and\n(b) after paragraph 2, insert the following new paragraph—\n“\n2A. Additional supply optometrists\n2A.Medicinal products which are prescription only medicines by reason only that they contain any of the following substances:\nAcetylcysteine\nAtropine sulphate\nAzelastine hydrochloride\nDicofenac sodium\nEmadastine\nHomotropine hydrobromide\nKetotifen\nLevocabastine\nLodoximide\nNedocromil sodium\nOlopatadine\nPilocarpine hydrochloride\nPolymyxin B/bacitracin\nPolymyxin B/trimethoprim\nSodium Cromoglycate\n2A.The sale or supply shall be only in the course of their professional practice and only in an emergency.\n”.\n(2) In the table in Part II of Schedule 1, after paragraph 6, insert the following new paragraph—\n“\n6A. Persons employed or engaged in the provision of lawful drug treatment\n6A. Ampoules of sterile water for injection containing not more than 2 ml of sterile water.\n6A. The supply shall be only in the course of provision of lawful drug treatment services.\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1507/article/9",
    "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."
}