{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-2",
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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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)\n(a) in the appropriate alphabetical position insert—\n““dispensing doctor list” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 12B;\n“directed services” means additional pharmaceutical services;\n“doctor’s list” means a list of a doctor’s patients kept by the Agency—\n(i) in respect of a doctor providing general medical services, in accordance with regulation 18 of the Medical Regulations, or\n(ii) in respect of a doctor performing personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme, in accordance with paragraph 3 of the Directions to Health and Social Services Boards and the Central Services Agency Concerning Patient Lists (Personal Medical Services) made under Articles 8(1) and 31(5) of the 1997 Order;\n“pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than a Board who is a party to a pilot scheme;”; and\n(b) in the definition of “patient”, at the end, insert “except in relation to a doctor who performs personal medical services under a pilot scheme and whose name is not included in the medical list, in which case it has the meaning assigned to it in the directions made by the Department in exercise of powers conferred on it by Articles 17 and 27 of the Order and Articles 8(1) and 31(5) of the 1997 Order.”.\n(3) After paragraph (1A), insert a new paragraph—\n“(1B) In these Regulations—\n(a) the term “pharmaceutical services”, in relation to a doctor whose name is not included in a medical list but who performs personal medical services under a pilot scheme, means those services referred to in regulation 12; and\n(b) the term “dispensing services”, in relation to such a doctor, means any corresponding service performed, not as pharmaceutical services, but under a pilot scheme by virtue of Article 3(3) of the 1997 Order.”.\n(4) In paragraph (2) (which specifies a description of nurse prescribers who may issue prescription forms) in each of the sub-paragraphs (a)(iii) and (b)(ii), after the words “medical list” insert the words “or by a pilot scheme provider in connection with the provision of personal medical services under a pilot scheme.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/222/regulation/2",
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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."
}