{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-etc-repeatable-prescriptions-amendment-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1018",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services etc.), (Repeatable Prescriptions) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-etc-repeatable-prescriptions-amendment-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1) —\n(a) for the definition of “appropriate non-proprietary name” substitute the following definition—\n““appropriate non-proprietary name” means a non-proprietary name which is not mentioned in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contract) (Prescription of Drugs etc.)(Wales) Regulations 2004, or except where the conditions in regulation 3 of those Regulations are satisfied, in Schedule 2 to those Regulations;”;\n(b) after the definition of “preliminary consent”, insert the following definition—\n““prescriber” means—\n(a) a doctor,\n(b) an independent nurse prescriber, and\n(c) a supplementary prescriber;”;\n(c) in the definition of “prescription form”, at the end insert “and does not include a repeatable prescription;”; and\n(d) after the definition of “Remission of Charges Regulations”, insert the following definitions—\n““repeat dispensing chemist” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 16B(1);\n“repeat dispensing services” means pharmaceutical services which involve the provision of drugs or appliances by a chemist in accordance with a repeatable prescription;\n“repeatable prescription” means a prescription contained in a form provided by a Local Health Board and issued by a prescriber to enable a person to obtain pharmaceutical services which is in the format specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to the NHS (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2004, and which —\n(a) is generated by a computer but signed by a prescriber; and\n(b) indicates that the drugs or appliances ordered on that form may be provided more than once, and specifies the number of occasions on which they may be provided;” ; and\n(e) for the definition of “Scheduled drug” substitute the following definition—\n““Scheduled drug” means a drug or other substance specified in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts)(Prescription of Drugs etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2004, or except where the conditions in regulation 3 of those Regulations are satisfied, in Schedule 2 to those Regulations;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.2004/1022 (W.119)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I.2004/478 (W.48)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1018/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:46.951517+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."
}