{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-no-3-order-1994/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-no-3-order-1994/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3050",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 3) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-no-3-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 1 of the principal Order",
  "text": "(1) In article 1(2) of the principal Order (citation, commencement and interpretation), after the definition of “aerosol” there is inserted the following definition—\n“appropriate nurse practitioner” means—\n(a) a person who—\n(i) is registered in Part 1 or 12 of the Register maintained by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting under section 10 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (referred to below in this definition as “the professional register”), and\n(ii) has a district nursing qualification additionally recorded in the professional register under rule 11 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules 1983; or\n(b) a person who is registered in Part 11 of the professional register as a health visitor;\nagainst whose name (in each case) is recorded in the professional register an annotation signifying that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances for patients;”.\n(2) The following paragraph is inserted after article 1(3) of the principal Order—\n“(4) In Schedule 1A, the abbreviation “NPF” means the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary Appendix in the British National Formulary.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 36; the Parts of the professional register were determined by S.I. 1983/667, amended by S.I. 1989/104 and 1989/1455."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Approved by S.I. 1983/873, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3050/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:00.311960+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."
}