{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "text": "For paragraph 10(8) (method of payment) of schedule 1 (terms of service for pharmacists and pharmacy contractors), substitute—\n“(8) No pharmacy contractor will be paid in respect of the supply of drugs or appliances—\n(a) indicated on a prescription form or serial prescription,\n(b) in terms of regulation 225 (emergency sale etc by pharmacist: at patient’s request) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012,\n(c) in terms of a Patient Group Direction issued by a Health Board in accordance with regulation 233 (exemption for supply etc under a PGD by person conducting a retail pharmacy business) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012,\n(d) in accordance with the terms of a protocol approved by the Scottish Ministers under regulation 247A (protocols relating to coronavirus and influenza vaccinations and immunisations) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012,\n(e) in accordance with a SSP or a Scottish SSP,\n(f) in accordance with a PTP, or\n(g) in response to an announcement by the Secretary of State and arrangements made in accordance with regulation 10A (directions of a practitioner while a disease is, or in anticipation of a disease being imminently, pandemic etc.) or 15(5) (form or prescriptions) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001,\nunless that supply takes place at a registered pharmacy included in the pharmaceutical list in respect of that pharmacy contractor.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevantly amended by S.I. 2014/323."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevantly amended by S.I. 2013/235, S.R. (NI) 2015 No 354 and S.I. 2020/1125."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Relevantly amended by S.I. 2020/1125."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Relevantly amended by S.I. 2020/468."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/420/regulation/5",
    "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."
}