{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/70",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 (terms of service for pharmacists) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 3, sub-paragraph (1), for “sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)” there is substituted “sub-paragraphs (1A), (2) and (3)”.\n(3) In paragraph 3, after sub-paragraph (1) there is inserted–\n“(1A) Where a pharmacist reasonably believes that a form presented as a prescription form under sub-paragraph (1) is not a genuine order for the person named on the form (for example because it has been amended or signed otherwise than in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)) the pharmacist shall refuse to supply the order for drugs or appliances on the form”.\n(4) After paragraph 3 there is inserted the following–\n“Directed services\n3A A pharmacist with whom a Health Board or NHS trust makes an arrangement for the provision of any directed service shall comply with the terms and conditions of the arrangement.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/70/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:47:52.470234+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."
}