{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/320",
  "legislation_title": "Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the Pharmaceutical Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 of the Pharmaceutical Regulations (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) After “the 1997 Order” insert:\n““APMS” means Alternative Provider Medical Services arrangements made under Article 56(2)(b) of the Order (primary medical services) for the provision of primary medical services and “APMS contractor” shall be construed accordingly;”\n(3) After “the Prescription of Drugs Regulations” insert:\n““RBMS” means a Regional Board Medical Services provider under Article 56(2)(a) of the Order (primary medical services) for the provision of primary medical services and “RBMS practice” shall be construed accordingly;”\n(4) After paragraph (3) insert the following paragraphs—\n“(4) In these Regulations, “emergency requiring the flexible provision of pharmaceutical services” means an emergency declared by means of a direction to the Regional Board under section 6 of the 2009 Act to the effect that, as a result of the threatened damage to human welfare caused or which may be caused by the illness designated in the direction, the Regional Board must for a specified period—\n(a) exercise, or\n(b) where a discretion is conferred, consider exercising,\none or more of their functions under regulation 6A, 12(7A) or paragraph 4A of Schedule 2 subject to any conditions or limitations set out in the direction.\n(5) Where—\n(a) a direction of the type mentioned in paragraph (4) is given; and\n(b) the Department issues a further direction changing the specified period of the emergency,\nthe duration of the emergency is to be construed in accordance with the specified period as so changed.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 56 was substituted by S.I. 2004/311 (N.I. 2) Article 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/320/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:30:32.321070+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."
}