{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/696",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Part III of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (terms of service for doctors who provide pharmaceutical services) is amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph 11A insert the following new paragraph—\n“11B Before providing the drugs or listed appliances recorded on a prescription form in accordance with paragraph 11(a), or the listed drugs or medicines or listed appliances ordered on a prescription form signed by a nurse prescriber in accordance with paragraph 11A(2), a doctor who is authorised or required by the Health Authority under regulation 20 to provide drugs and appliances to a patient shall—\n(a) ask any person who makes a declaration on the prescription form that the patient does not have to pay the charges specified in regulation 3(1) of the Charges Regulations by virtue of either—\n(i) entitlement to exemption under any of sub-paragraphs (d) to (g) of regulation 6(1) of the Charges Regulations, or\n(ii) entitlement to remission of such charges under regulation 3 of the Remission of Charges Regulations,\nto produce satisfactory evidence of such entitlement unless the declaration is in respect of entitlement to exemption by virtue of sub-paragraph (d), (e) or (f) of regulation 6(1) of the Charges Regulations, and at the time of the declaration the doctor already has such evidence available to him; and\n(b) if no satisfactory evidence is produced to him (and, where it is relevant none is already available to him as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)) endorse the prescription form to that effect.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 11A was inserted by S.I. 1994/2402, regulation 5 and amended by S.I. 1995/644, regulation 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/696/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:58.423395+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."
}