{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/381",
  "legislation_title": "Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Additional professional services",
  "text": "(1) A chemist may, in addition, undertake to provide additional professional services.\n(2) In these Regulations, “additional professional services” means—\n(a) displaying such health promotion leaflets as the Board may, in consultation with the Local Pharmaceutical Committee, approve; and\n(b) publishing a leaflet (“practice leaflet”) which shall include—\n(i) a list of the pharmaceutical services which the chemist has undertaken to provide and for which his name is included in the pharmaceutical list;\n(ii) the name, address and telephone number of the premises from which he provides those services and the hours in each day of the week during which he provides those services from those premises;\n(iii) the arrangements made by the chemist to provide, or such arrangements as the chemist has made with any other chemist to provide, pharmaceutical services to any person who needs those services in an emergency or outside of the normal hours during which the chemist provides pharmaceutical services; and\n(iv) the procedure by which any person may comment upon the provision of pharmaceutical services provided by the chemist; and\n(c) keeping records in connection with drugs supplied to any person—\n(i) who claims exemption under regulation 7(1)(c) of the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (which provides that those aged 60 or over are exempt from prescription charges); or\n(ii) who, in the opinion of the chemist providing the drug, is likely to have difficulty understanding the nature and dosage of the drug provided and the times at which it is to be taken,\nin circumstances where the nature of the drug is such that, in the opinion of the chemist providing it, the same or a similar drug is likely to be prescribed for that person regularly on future occasions.\n(3) In paragraph (2)(c) “records” includes a record of—\n(a) the name and address of the person to whom the drug is supplied;\n(b) the name, quantity and dosage of the drug supplied; and\n(c) the date on which the drug is supplied.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 382"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/381",
      "affecting_title": "Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2010/72",
      "affecting_title": "The Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/116",
      "affecting_title": "The Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/381/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:30.758145+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."
}