{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1162",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Sale or Supply Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Sale or Supply Regulations shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(a) in the definition of “health prescription”, after “a nurse independent prescriber” insert “, an optometrist independent prescriber”; and\n(b) after the definition of “nursing home” insert the following definition—\n““optometrist independent prescriber” means a person—\n(a) who is a registered optometrist, and\n(b) against whose name is recorded in the relevant register an annotation that he is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as an optometrist independent prescriber;”.\n(3) In Schedule 2 (particulars in pharmacy records), in paragraph 1—\n(a) after “a nurse independent prescriber” insert “, an optometrist independent prescriber”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (c), after “nurse independent prescriber” insert “, optometrist independent prescriber”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1162/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:34.984906+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."
}