{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-7/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-7/paragraph-5.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/7/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Dispensing of drugs and appliances ordered by the dispensing doctor",
  "text": "In circumstances where paragraph 4 does not apply and subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, where a dispensing doctor is authorised or required by virtue of Part 6 of these Regulations to provide drugs or appliances to a person, the dispensing doctor must—\n(a) record an order for the provision of any drugs or appliances which are needed for the treatment of the patient on a prescription form completed in accordance with a GMS contract which gives effect to paragraphs 49 and 50 of Schedule 3 to the GMS Regulations (other contract terms: prescribing),\n(b) provide those drugs or appliances in a suitable container,\n(c) provide for the patient a drug specified in Schedule 2 to the Prescription of Drugs Regulations only where the conditions in paragraph 55 of Schedule 3 to the GMS Regulations (restrictions on prescribing by medical practitioners) are satisfied, and\n(d) provide for the patient a restricted availability appliance only if the patient is a person, or it is for a purpose, specified in the Drug Tariff.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 5(a) substituted (1.10.2023) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/953), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 2(3)(a)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2023/1421, regs. 1, 20(f)(i))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 5(c) substituted (1.10.2023) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/953), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 7 para. 5(c) substituted (11.1.2024) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1421), regs. 1, 23(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 5 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/7/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}