Paragraph 5 Preliminary matters before providing ordered drugs or appliances
Before providing any drugs or appliances in accordance with paragraph 3, or in the circumstances set out in paragraph 4—
the dispensing doctor shall ask any person who makes a declaration that the patient does not have to pay the charges specified in regulation 4(1) of the Charges Regulations by virtue of either—
entitlement to exemption under regulation 8(1) of the Charges Regulations, or
entitlement to remission of charges under regulation 5 of the Remission of Charges Regulations,
to produce satisfactory evidence of such entitlement, unless the declaration is in respect of entitlement to exemption by virtue of regulation 8 of the Charges Regulations or in respect of entitlement to remission by virtue of regulation 4(2)(e), (j) or (k) of the Remission of Charges Regulations, and at the time of the declaration the dispensing doctor has such evidence available to him;
if, in the case of a non-electronic prescription form or non-electronic repeatable prescription, no satisfactory evidence, as required by sub-paragraph (a), is produced to the dispensing doctor, the dispensing doctor shall endorse the form on which the declaration is made to that effect; and
in the case of an electronic prescription, the dispensing doctor shall transmit to the ETP service—
in a case where exemption from or remission of charges is claimed for all or some of the items included in the prescription, a record of—
the exemption category specified in regulation 7(1) of the Charges Regulations or the ground for remission under regulation 5 of the Remission of Charges Regulations which it is claimed applies to the case; and
whether or not satisfactory evidence was produced to him as required by sub-paragraph (a),
in any case where a charge is due, confirmation that the relevant charge was paid, and
in a case of a prescription for or including contraceptive substances, confirmation that no charge was payable in respect of those substances.