{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-etc-repeatable-prescriptions-amendment-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-etc-repeatable-prescriptions-amendment-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after the definition of “appliance”, insert the following definition—\n““batch issue” means a form provided by a Local Health Board 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 I of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts)(Wales) Regulations 2004, 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) forms part of a sequence of batch issues, the number of batch issues being 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(ii) after the definition of “pre-payment certificate”, insert the following definition—\n““prescriber” means—\n(a) a doctor,\n(b) an independent nurse prescriber, and\n(c) a supplementary prescriber;”,\n(iii) for the definition of “prescription form” substitute the following definition—\n““prescription form” means, a form provided by a Local Health Board or an NHS Trust and issued by a doctor, dentist, supplementary prescriber or independent nurse prescriber to enable a person to obtain pharmaceutical services and—\n(a) includes a prescription form provided and issued under equivalent arrangements having effect in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland; and\n(b) does not include a repeatable prescription;”, and\n(iv) after the definition of “prescription form” insert the following definitions—\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 National Health Service (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(b) in paragraph (3), after “one prescription form” insert “, or on one repeatable prescription (but only where the supply is against one batch issue relating to that repeatable prescription)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.2004/478 (W.48)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/121",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Wales) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1018/regulation/7",
    "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."
}