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Paragraph 6 Providing appliances

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Where a supplier of appliances is presented with a non-electronic prescription form or receives a prescription form from the ETP service, the supplier of appliances shall only provide the drugs or appliances so ordered—

(a)

if the prescription form or repeatable prescription is duly signed and completed as described in paragraph 4; and

(b)

in accordance with the order on the prescription form,

subject to any regulations in force under the Weights and Measures Act 1985f1 and the following provisions of this Part.

(2)

If the order is for an appliance of a type requiring measuring and fitting by the supplier of appliances (for example a truss) the supplier of appliances shall make all necessary arrangements for—

(a)

measuring the person named on the prescription form for the appliance; and

(b)

fitting the appliance.

(3)

If the order is for an appliance included in the Drug Tariff, the British National Formulary (including any Appendix published as part of that Formulary), the Dental Practitioner’s Formulary, the European Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex, the appliance provided shall comply with the standard or formula specified therein.

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Footnotes

f1

1985 c. 72.