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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/222",
  "legislation_title": "Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations further amend the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (“the principal Regulations”), by making provision for a Board to grant a temporary relocation for a designated period, and to allow a dispensing doctor to provide pharmaceutical services to his patients while performing personal medical services.\nRegulation 2 inserts and amends definitions in the principal Regulations.\nRegulations 3 and 6 remove the provisions relating to supplemental services, which now become directed services.\nRegulations 4 and 5 provide for a Board to allow a temporary relocation of pharmacy premises for a specified period.\nRegulations 7, 8 and 9 provide for a dispensing doctor to provide pharmaceutical services to those patients on his list to whom he is providing personal medical services under a pilot scheme and requires a Board to keep a list of dispensing doctors required to provide pharmaceutical services to their patients.\nRegulation 10 requires a Board to make available for inspection a list of dispensing doctors required to provide pharmaceutical services to their patients.\nRegulation 11 provides for any arrangements for the provision of directed services by a chemist to be included as part of the chemist’s terms of service.\nRegulation 12 provides for the complaints procedure established for a personal medical services pilot scheme to also apply to the provision of pharmaceutical services under such a scheme.\nRegulations 13 and 14 provide for a minor amendment to the wording on the application form used by chemists or persons other than chemists when seeking a minor relocation of pharmacy premises and introduce new forms to be used when applying for a temporary relocation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/222/note",
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  },
  "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."
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