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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2018/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/68",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2018",
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  "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 2009 (“the 2009 Regulations”). Regulation 3 extends the definition of “prescriber” in regulation 2(1) of the 2009 Regulations by the insertion of a new category of independent prescriber, namely paramedic independent prescribers and also adds into that regulation a definition of “paramedic independent prescriber”.\nRegulation 3 additionally amends the definition of “advanced electronic signature” also in regulation 2(1) of the 2009 Regulations to reflect the definition in article 3(11) of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC and makes a consequential change by adding a new definition of “electronic signature”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/68/note",
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  "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."
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