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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/119",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "text": "(1) The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(2) –\n(a) after the definition of “authorised as a member of a group”, insert ““clinical management plan” has the same meaning as in the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997;\n(b) in the definition of “prescription”, after “prescriber for the medical treatment of a single individual”, insert “by a supplementary prescriber for the medical treatment of a single individual;”;\n(c) after the definition of “state registered paramedic”, insert ““supplementary prescriber” has the same meaning as in the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997”;\n(3) In regulation 6(2), after “registered nurse”, insert “, a supplementary prescriber”.\n(4) In regulation 6A(2), after “treatment services” insert –\n“(d) a supplementary prescriber acting under and in accordance with the terms of a clinical management plan”.\n(5) In regulation 7, after paragraph (5) insert –\n“(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3), a supplementary prescriber acting under and in accordance with the terms of a clinical management plan may administer to a patient, without the directions of a doctor or dentist, any drug specified in Schedule 2, 3 or 4.\n(7) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3), any person may administer to a patient, in accordance with the directions of a supplementary prescriber acting under and in accordance with the terms of a clinical management plan, any drug specified in Schedule 2, 3 or 4.”\n(6) In regulation 8(2), after paragraph (j) insert –\n“(k) a supplementary prescriber acting under and in accordance with the terms of a clinical management plan,”.\n(7) In regulation 9(2), after paragraph (h) insert –\n“(i) a supplementary prescriber acting under and in accordance with the terms of a clinical management plan,”.\n(8) In regulation 10 –\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a), “(k)” shall be substituted for “(j)”;\n(b) in paragraph (1)(b), “(i)” shall be substituted for “(h)”;\n(c) in paragraph (2) after “practitioner”, insert “, a supplementary prescriber acting under and in accordance with the terms of a clinical management plan”;\n(d) in paragraph (2) after “doctor”, insert “, a supplementary prescriber”;\n(e) in paragraph (2)(a) after the first “doctor”, insert “, another supplementary prescriber”;\n(f) in paragraph (2)(a) after the second “doctor”, insert “, supplementary prescriber”.\n(9) In regulation 14(4) after paragraph (f), insert –\n“(g) a supplementary prescriber”.\n(10) In regulation 18(2)(d) after “practitioner”, insert “or supplementary prescriber”.\n(11) In regulation 26(2) after paragraph (h), insert –\n“(i) a supplementary prescriber”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2002 No. 1 the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2003 Nos. 324 and 420"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830; the definition of “clinical management plan” was inserted by S.I. 2003/696"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830; the definition of “supplementary prescriber” was inserted by S.I. 2003/696 and amended by S.I. 2004/1771"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/119/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:33.605235+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."
}