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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1161",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 1 of the POM Order",
  "text": "In article 1 of the POM Order (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2) after the definition of “operator” insert the following definition—\n““optometrist independent prescriber” means a person—\n(a) who is a registered optometrist, 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 an optometrist independent prescriber;”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1161/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:35.744804+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."
}