{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/420",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) (interpretation and application)—\n(a) after the definition of “optometrist independent prescriber”, insert—\n““pandemic treatment protocol” means a protocol that—\n(a) relates to the supply of a prescription only medicine to be used for the prevention of or as a treatment for a disease that is, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently, pandemic and a serious risk, or potentially a serious risk, to human health, and\n(b) is approved in accordance with regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease),”, and\n(b) after the definition of “provisional pharmaceutical list”, insert—\n““PTP” means a pandemic treatment protocol,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1916. Relevantly amended by S.I. 2013/235 and S.I. 2020/1125."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/420/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:01.251475+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."
}