# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992, Paragraph 12


(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a doctor who is authorised or required by an FHSA under regulation 20 to provide drugs or appliances to a patient shall not provide for a patient any Scheduled drug, except that, where he has ordered a drug which has an appropriate non- proprietary name either by the name or by its formula, he may provide a drug which has the same specification notwithstanding that it is a Scheduled drug (but, in the case of a drug which combines more than one drug, only if the combination has an appropriate non-proprietary name).
(2) Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a doctor providing, otherwise than under pharmaceutical services, a scheduled drug for a patient.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/662/schedule/2/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-12
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