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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/696",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) which govern the arrangements to be made by Health Boards for the provision in their area of pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\nRegulations 3 and 4 amend the principal Regulations to enable the Secretary of State to designate, in the Drug Tariff, Health Boards as the determining authority for remuneration in respect of specified pharmaceutical services, and requires a Health Board to consult prior to making such a determination and to publish any determinations made.\nRegulation 5 amends the definition of “prescription form” in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations to enable it to be used in the transmission of electronic data in connection with calculation of pharmacists remuneration.",
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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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