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  "legislation_title": "Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Charges for drugs",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations made under Article 98 of, and Schedule 15 to, the Order, all drugs, containers and appliances supplied under these terms of service shall be supplied free of charge.\n(2) Where a chemist supplies a container in response to an order for drugs signed by a doctor under paragraph 48 of Schedule 2 to the Medical Regulations or by a nurse prescriber or supplies an oxygen container or oxygen equipment, other than equipment specified in the Drug Tariff as not returnable to the chemist, the container and equipment shall remain the property of the chemist.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
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