{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-4.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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Dispensing services",
  "text": "An NHS pharmacist must, to the extent that paragraphs 5 to 9 require and in the manner described in those paragraphs, provide proper and sufficient drugs and appliances to persons presenting a prescription for that drug or appliance signed by a prescriber in pursuance of their functions in the health service in Wales, England, Scotland or Northern Ireland and persons presenting an order for an ophthalmic listed appliance or an ophthalmic listed medicine signed by a qualifying optometrist in pursuance of their functions in the health service in Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 4 inserted (1.4.2025) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1196), regs. 1(4), 3(2) (as amended by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/285), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}