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  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a doctor who is required by a Board under regulation 12 to supply drugs or appliances to a patient shall not supply to a patient any Scheduled drug, except that, where he has ordered a drug which has an appropriate non-proprietary name either by the name or by its formula, he may supply a drug which has the same specification notwithstanding that it is a Scheduled drug (but, in the case of a drug which combines more than one drug, only if the combination has an appropriate non-proprietary name).\n(2) Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a doctor supplying, otherwise than under these terms of service, a Scheduled drug for a patient.",
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