{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 3B of the POM Order",
  "text": "In article 3B of the POM Order (prescribing and administration by supplementary prescribers), in paragraph (2)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “district nurse/health visitor prescriber” substitute “community practitioner nurse prescriber”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b)—\n(i) for “an extended formulary nurse prescriber” substitute “a nurse independent prescriber”, and\n(ii) in head (ii), after “3A(3)” insert “; and”; and\n(c) after sub-paragraph (b), insert the following sub-paragraph—\n“(c) the supplementary prescriber is a pharmacist independent prescriber and the medicinal product prescribed or administered, or in respect of which he gives directions for administration—\n(i) is a prescription only medicine, and\n(ii) is not a controlled drug.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 3B was inserted by S.I. 2003/696 and amended by S.I. 2005/765."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/915/article/5",
    "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."
}