{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008/article-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 8 of the POM Order",
  "text": "In article 8 of the POM Order (exemptions for emergency sale or supply)—\n(a) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after “a nurse independent prescriber ” insert “, an optometrist independent prescriber”,\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), after “nurse independent prescriber” insert “, optometrist independent prescriber”, and\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (c), after “nurse independent prescriber” insert “, optometrist independent prescriber”; and\n(b) in paragraph (4), in sub-paragraph (a), in head (ii), after “nurse independent prescriber” insert “, optometrist independent prescriber”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1161/article/4",
    "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."
}