Article 3 Amendment of article 12C of, and Schedule 7 to, the principal Order

In article 12C of the principal Order^f1, after paragraph (2)(c), there is inserted—

“(cc)

where the prescription only medicine is administered by the person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business within the meaning of section 69, the individual who administers the medicine belongs to one of the classes of individual specified in Part III of Schedule 7 to this Order, and is designated in writing, on behalf of the body with which an arrangement has been made as referred to in paragraph (1)(a), for the purpose of the administration of prescription only medicines under the Patient Group Direction; and”.

In the heading of Part III of Schedule 7 to the principal Order, for “BY WHOM SUPPLIES MAY BE MADE” there is substituted “BY WHOM PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINES MAY BE SUPPLIED OR ADMINISTERED”.