{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2020/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule, drugs or appliances are to be taken to be requested or provided in accordance with a repeatable prescription even if the person who wishes to obtain pharmaceutical services does not present that prescription, as long as—\n(a) the NHS pharmacist has that prescription in their possession, and\n(b) that person presents, or the NHS pharmacist has in their possession, an associated batch issue.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 1 in force at 1.10.2020, see reg. 1(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:49.207634+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."
}