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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/618",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/414) (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the provision of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\nThese amendments make provision for pharmacists to supply certain drugs and appliances without a prescription form being presented where the drugs and appliances are supplied in accordance with the terms of a Patient Group Direction issued by a Health Board in accordance with Article 12C of the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1830) (exemption for persons conducting a retail pharmacy business who supply or administer prescription only medicines under a Patient Group Direction).\nRegulation 2(3)(a)(i) amends paragraph (3A) of Schedule 1 of the principal Regulations by substituting references to (a) the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/430) and (b) the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/460) for the now revoked (a) National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/236) and (b) National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/546).",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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