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  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Urgent supply without a prescription",
  "text": "Where, in case of urgency, a prescriber personally known to a contractor requests it to provide a drug, a contractor may provide that drug (where it would otherwise be able to provide that drug in accordance with the LPS scheme) before receiving a prescription form or repeatable prescription, provided that—\n(a) the drug is not a Scheduled drug;\n(b) the drug is not a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, other than a drug which is for the time being specified in Schedule 4 or 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001; and\n(c) the prescriber undertakes to—\n(i) give the contractor a non-electronic prescription form or non-electronic repeatable prescription in respect of the drug within 72 hours, or\n(ii) transmit to the ETP service within 72 hours an electronic prescription.",
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