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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/698",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 (“the principal Regulations”) which impose restrictions on the sale and supply of medicinal products.\nRegulation 6 of, and Schedule 2 to, the principal Regulations imposes a requirement on persons conducting a retail pharmacy business to record the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine except in specified circumstances such as the sale or supply having been made pursuant to a prescription issued under or by virtue of legislation relating to the National Health Service. Regulations 2(a), (b), (d) and (h) to (j), 4 and 6 of these Regulations amends these provisions so as to include references to prescriptions written by supplementary prescribers, district nurse/health visitor prescribers and extended formulary nurse prescribers.\nSchedule 1 to the principal Regulations specifies persons who may, subject to exemptions specified in the principal Regulations, be supplied with certain medicinal products. Regulation 5 of these Regulations adds—\n(a) authorities or persons carrying on the business of independent hospitals, clinics and medical agencies, and\n(b) persons who carry on a business consisting (wholly or partly) of the supply or administration of medicinal products for the purpose of assisting the provision of health care by the police, the prison services or the armed forces,\nto the list of bodies specified in Schedule 1.\nRegulations 2, 3, 4 and 6 make minor and consequential amendments to the principal Regulations. In particular, these include the removal of references to the Medicines (Prescription Only) Order 1980 and the substitution of references to the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997.\nA Regulatory Impact Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and copies may be obtained from the Department of Health, Medicines Control Agency, Information Centre, Room 10-202, Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1921 revoked by S.I. 1983/1212."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830, amended by S.I. 1997/2044, 1998/108, 1178 and 2081, 1999/1044 and 3463, 2000/1917, 2899 and 3231, 2001/2777, 2889 and 3942, and 2002/549 and 2469."
    }
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  "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."
}