{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the Pharmaceutical Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2(1) of the Pharmaceutical Regulations (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) After “appropriate non-proprietary name” insert —\n““authorisation” means permission to supply a drug in accordance with a PTP;”.\n(3) After “the Order” insert —\n““paramedic independent prescriber” means a person—\n(a) who is registered in Part 8 of the register maintained under Article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001; and\n(b) against whose name in that register is recorded an annotation signifying that person is qualified to order drugs, medicines or appliances as a paramedic independent prescriber;”.\n(4) For the definition of “prescriber” substitute—\n““prescriber” means a doctor, dentist, a chiropodist or podiatrist independent prescriber, an independent nurse prescriber, an optometrist independent prescriber, a paramedic independent prescriber, a pharmacist independent prescriber, a physiotherapist independent prescriber, a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber or a supplementary prescriber;”.\n(5) After “the Prescription of Drugs Regulations” insert—\n““PTP” means a pandemic treatment protocol, which is a protocol—\n(a) relating to the supply of a prescription only medicine to be used for the prevention of or as a treatment for a disease that is, or in anticipation of it being imminently, pandemic; and\n(b) approved in accordance with regulation 247 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (exemption for supply in the event or anticipation of pandemic disease);”.\n(6) For the definition of “relevant register” substitute—\n““relevant register” means—\n(a) in relation to a nurse, the Nursing and Midwifery Register;\n(b) in relation to a paramedic, the register maintained under Article 5 of the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001; and\n(c) in relation to a pharmacist, the register maintained under Article 10(1) (the Register of Pharmacists) of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 or the register maintained in pursuance of Articles 6 (the registers) and 9 (the register) of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976; ”.\n(7) In the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—\n(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (a)(iv)(bb) and (cc), omit “or” at both places where it occurs; and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (a)(iv)(cc) insert “(dd) dietitians; or”;\n(8) In the definition of “terms of service”, omit “and”;\n(9) After “terms of service” insert —\n““therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber” means a person—\n(a) who is a registered radiographer; and\n(b) against whose name is recorded in the relevant register –\n(i) an entitlement to use the title “therapeutic radiographer”, and\n(ii) an annotation signifying that the person is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber; and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1916; regulation 247 has been amended by S.I. 2013/235 and S.I. 2020/1125"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/31/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:35:59.889913+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."
}