{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/915",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Pharmacy and General Sale Order",
  "text": "(1) The Pharmacy and General Sale Order shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In article 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2)—\n(a) omit the definition of “first level nurse”;\n(b) in the definition of “nurse prescriber”—\n(i) in paragraph (a), for “first level” substitute “registered”, and\n(ii) in paragraph (b), after “appliances” insert “as a community practitioner nurse prescriber, a nurse independent prescriber or a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber”;\n(c) after the definition of “Patient Group Direction” insert the following definition—\n““pharmacist independent prescriber” means a person—\n(a) who is a pharmacist, and\n(b) against whose name is recorded in the relevant register an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a pharmacist independent prescriber;”;\n(d) after the definition of “registered homeopathic medicinal product for human use” insert the following definitions—\n““registered midwife” means a person registered in the Midwives' Part of the professional register;\n“registered nurse” means a person registered in the Nurses' Part or Specialist Community Public Health Nurses' Part of the professional register;”;\n(e) in the definition of “relevant register”, in paragraph (a), for “first level” substitute “registered”; and\n(f) in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—\n(i) in paragraph (a), for “first level” substitute “registered”, and\n(ii) after “a supplementary prescriber” insert “or, in the case of a nurse or midwife, as a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber”.\n(3) In article 4AA (exemption for sale, offer for sale or supply in hospitals and health centres), after “supplementary prescriber” insert “, a pharmacist independent prescriber”.\n(4) In Schedule 3, in Part III (classes of individual by whom supplies may be made), omit “Registered health visitors.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/915/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:33:08.777847+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."
}