{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1988/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1988/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2017",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1988",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Order",
  "text": "In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which lists substances which render a medicinal product a prescription only medicine except in circumstances also listed) —\n(a) the following substances are inserted at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order of the substances listed in Column 1—\n“Alclometasone Dipropionate\nAstemizole\nAuranofin\nBuspirone Hydrochloride\nCiprofloxacin\nCiprofloxacin Hydrochloride\nClavulanic Acid\nDanthron\nDesogestrel\nDisodium Etidronate\nEtodolac\nGemeprost\nMesalazine\nMetergoline\nMupirocin\nNabumetone\nNicardipine Hydrochloride\nPotassium Clavulanate\nSomatrem\nSulbactam Sodium\nThiabendazole\nTrientine Dihydrochloride\nZidovudine\nZuclopenthixol Hydrochloride”;\n(b) the following substances in Column 1 are deleted —\n“Chlordiazepoxide Hydrochloride\nEtidronate Disodium\nPotassium Clorazepate”;\n(c) in Column 3 of the entry relating to Amodiaquine Hydrochloride, the words “Prophylaxis of malaria” are deleted;\n(d) for the entry relating to Ibuprofen there is substituted the entry set out in the Schedule 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/1988/2017/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:40.915266+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."
}