{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prescription-only-pharmacy-and-general-sale-amendment-order-1989/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prescription-only-pharmacy-and-general-sale-amendment-order-1989/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1852",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Prescription Only, Pharmacy and General Sale) Amendment Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prescription-only-pharmacy-and-general-sale-amendment-order-1989",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Pharmacy and General Sale Exemption Order",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 to the Pharmacy and General Sale Exemption Order (exemptions for certain persons from the provisions of sections 52 and 53 of the Medicines Act 1968)–\n(a) in paragraph 2 in Column 2 of Part I, the following sub-paragraphs are substituted for sub-paragraph (a)–\n“(a) are eye drops and are prescription only medicines by reason only that they contain not more than–\n(i) 30.0 per cent Sulphacetamide Sodium, or\n(ii) 0.5 per cent Chloramphenicol, or\n(aa) are eye ointments and are prescription only medicines by reason only that they contain not more than–\n(i) 30.0 per cent Sulphacetamide Sodium, or\n(ii) 1.0 per cent Chloramphenicol, or”; and\n(b) at the end of Part II there is inserted the paragraph set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1852/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:36:15.807735+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."
}