{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/922",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part I(General) of Schedule 2",
  "text": "In paragraph 1(2) (interpretation) of Schedule 2—\n(a) at the end of the definition of “associated batch issue” insert “and”, and for the definition of “batch issue” substitute—\n““batch issue” means a form provided by a Primary Care Trust and issued by a prescriber at the same time as a repeatable prescription to enable a chemist to receive payment for the provision of repeat dispensing services which is in the format specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the GMS Regulations, and which—\n(a) is generated by a computer and not signed by a prescriber,\n(b) relates to a particular repeatable prescription and contains the same date as that prescription,\n(c) is issued as one of a sequence of forms, the number of which is equal to the number of occasions on which the drugs or appliances ordered on the repeatable prescription may be provided, and\n(d) specifies a number denoting its place in the sequence referred to in paragraph (c).”\n(b) omit the definition of “repeatable prescribing doctor”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/922/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:28:40.900235+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."
}