{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-no-2-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-no-2-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1918",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-no-2-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1(2)(a) of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations there is inserted, at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order of the entries in that sub-paragraph, the following entries—\n““excepted person” means—\n(a) a doctor or dentist; or\n(b) a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business within the meaning of section 69;\n“Health Authority”—\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977;\n(b) in relation to Scotland, means a Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; and\n(c) in relation to Northern Ireland, means a Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;\n“Primary Care Trust” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“Special Health Authority”—\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977;\n(b) in relation to Scotland, means a Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; and\n(c) in relation to Northern Ireland, means a Special Health and Social Services Agency established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Special Agencies) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 8, which deals with the establishment of Health Authorities, was inserted by section 1 of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 16A, which deals with the establishment of Primary Care Trusts, was inserted by section 2 of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/247 (N.I. 3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1918/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.103260+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."
}