# The Medicines (Retail Pharmacists—Exemptions from Licensing Requirements) Order 1971, Note: Explanatory note


This order modifies section 10 of the Medicines Act 1968, which provides exemptions for pharmacists from the need to hold licences.
The amendment to section 10(1)(b) ensures that the exemptions in the case of the assembling of medicinal products shall apply only where the assembling is with a view to sale at the retail pharmacy at which it occurs or at other retail pharmacies forming part of the same business, and that the product has not been advertised. The exemption provided by section 10(4)(b) is modified by restricting it to cases in which the stocks are prepared for retail sale or supply at that pharmacy or another forming part of the same business.
Four new subsections are added. These exempt from the requirement to hold a product licence a retail pharmacist who prepares a medicinal product on his own initiative for retail sale at his pharmacy, provided that the product is not advertised, exempt from the requirement to hold a manufacturer's licence a retail pharmacist who prepares at his retail pharmacy medicinal products for retail sale or supply at that pharmacy, and exempt from the need to hold a wholesale dealer's licence a retail pharmacist whose wholesale dealings form no more than an inconsiderable part of his business.
The order provides that section 10 shall apply to anything done on the registered premises of an authorised seller of poisons, and contains like provisions relating to Northern Ireland.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1445/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-retail-pharmacistsexemptions-from-licensing-requirements-order-1971/note
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