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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc) Regulations 2004",
  "text": "In the National Health Service (General Medical Service Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc) Regulations 2004 , in Schedule 2 (drugs, medicines and other substances that may be ordered only in certain circumstances: interpretation)—\n(a) for the definition of “general medical practitioner” substitute—\n““general medical practitioner” has the meaning given in regulation 3 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015;”, and\n(b) for the definition of “patient” substitute—\n““patient” has the meaning given in regulation 3 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/629. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2004/3215 and SI. 2010/2389."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:48.208183+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."
}