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This Order amends the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) Order 1980 and provides for an exemption to sections 52 and 53 of the Medicines Act 1968 (restrictions on the sale or supply of medicinal products) for the sale, offer for sale or supply of medicines in the course of the business of a hospital or health centre, where such sale or supply is in accordance with the written directions of a supplementary prescriber or an independent nurse prescriber.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment in relation to this Order has been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and copies may be obtained from the Department of Health, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Information Centre, Room 10-202 Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ.