{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-pricing-authority-constitution-order-1990/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1718",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescription Pricing Authority Constitution Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-pricing-authority-constitution-order-1990",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Constitution of the Pricing Authority",
  "text": "The Pricing Authority shall consist of eight members, of whom, subject to any direction by the Secretary of State under regulation 7 of the Prescription Pricing Authority Regulations 1990—\n(a) one shall be the chairman;\n(b) one shall be a medical practitioner providing general medical services;\n(c) one shall be a registered pharmacist providing pharmaceutical services;\n(d) one shall be the chief officer of a Family Authority;\n(e) three shall be persons who are not and never have been—\n(i) a medical practitioner,\n(ii) a dental practitioner,\n(iii) a registered pharmacist,\n(iv) a person registered in any of the registers of opticians maintained under the Opticians Act 1989, or\n(v) a person registered in any part of the register maintained by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting pursuant to section 10 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979;\n(f) one shall be the chief officer for the time being of the Pricing Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1719."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1979 c. 36."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/865",
      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/848",
      "affecting_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/881",
      "affecting_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2861",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2861",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1718/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:08:18.427063+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."
}