{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/245",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995–\n(a) for the definition of “independent nurse prescriber” substitute–\n““independent nurse prescriber” means a person–\n(a) who is registered in the Nursing and Midwifery Register; and\n(b) against whose name is recorded in that register an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a community practitioner nurse prescriber, a nurse independent prescriber or a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber;”;\n(b) for the definition of “nurses and midwives' professional register” substitute–\n““Nursing and Midwifery Register” means the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001;”; and\n(c) for the definition of “supplementary prescriber” substitute–\n““supplementary prescriber” means a person whose name is registered in–\n(a) the Nursing and Midwifery Register;\n(b) the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists maintained in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Pharmacy Act 1954;\n(c) the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 and 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;\n(d) the part of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council in pursuance of article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001 relating to–\n(i) chiropodists and podiatrists;\n(ii) physiotherapists; or\n(iii) diagnostic or therapeutic radiographers; or\n(e) the register of optometrists maintained by the General Optical Council in pursuance of section 7 of the Opticians Act 1989,\nand against whose name is recorded in the relevant register an annotation signifying that he or she is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a supplementary prescriber or, in the case of the Nursing and Midwifery Register, a nurse independent/supplementary prescriber;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/414; relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2003/296, S.I. 2004/1771, S.S.I. 2005/327 and 2006/143."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “independent nurse prescriber” was inserted by S.S.I. 2003/296 and substituted by S.I. 2004/1771."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definition of “nurses and midwives professional register” was inserted by S.S.I. 2003/296 and amended by S.I. 2004/1771."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/253 to which there are no relevant amending instruments."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The definition of “supplementary prescriber” was inserted by S.S.I. 2003/296 and amended by S.I. 2004/1771, S.S.I. 2005/327 and 2006/143."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1954 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1213 (NI 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/254 to which there are no relevant amending instruments."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1989 c. 44; section 7 was amended by S.I. 2005/848, Art 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/245/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:19:46.416793+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."
}