{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prescription-only-pharmacy-and-general-sale-amendment-order-1989/schedule-1/part",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prescription-only-pharmacy-and-general-sale-amendment-order-1989/schedule-1/part.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": "schedule/1/part",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING MEDICINAL PRODUCTS FROM THE CLASS OF PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nSubstances\nMaximum strength\nUse, pharmaceutical form or route of administration\nMaximum dose and maximum daily dose\nDextromethorphan Hydrobromide\nInternal\n(a) In the case of a controlled release preparation:\nequivalent of 30 mg of Dextromethorphan (MD),\nequivalent of 75 mg of Dextromethorphan (MDD);\n(b) in any other case:\nequivalent of 15 mg of Dextromethorphan (MD),\nequivalent of 75 mg of Dextromethorphan (MDD).\nIbuprofen\nRheumatic and muscular pain, backache, neuralgia, migraine, headache, dental pain, dysmenorrhoea, feverishness, symptoms of cold and influenza:\n(1) Internal\n(1) (a) In the case of a controlled release preparation:\n600 mg (MD),\n1200 mg (MDD);\n(b) in any other case:\n400 mg (MD),\n1200 mg (MDD).\n(2) 5.0 per cent.\n(2) External",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1830",
      "affecting_title": "The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1852/schedule/1/part",
    "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."
}