Explanatory note

These Regulations futher amend the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 which govern the arrangements to be made by Health Authorities for the provision in their area of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.

Regulation 2 extends the circumstances in which a chemist is required to ask a person presenting an order for drugs and appliances under paragraph 3(1) of the chemist’s terms of service to provide specified evidence to substantiate specific claims relating to exemptions from or remission of charges due under the NHS (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 1989 and regulation 3 similarly amends the requirements on doctors authorised to provide pharmaceutical services for a patient under regulation 20.

These Regulations impose no cost on business.