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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1999.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.
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In Part II of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (terms of service for chemists), for sub-paragraph (12) of paragraph 2 (provision of pharmaceutical services) there shall be substituted—“
(12) Where, in the case of urgency, a doctor personally known to a chemist requests him to supply a drug, the chemist may only make such a supply before receiving a prescription form if the drug is not a Scheduled drug and then only in accordance with the provisions of Articles 8(1), (2) and (5) of the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on
D. A. Baker
Assistant Secretary
30th September 1999.Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on
J. G. Sullivan
Assistant Secretary
30th September 1999.