Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Drugs, medicines and other substances that may be ordered only in certain circumstances

3.  A drug, medicine or other substance specified in an entry in column 1 of Schedule 2 may not be ordered for a patient in the provision of medical services under a general medical services contract unless –

(a)that patient is a person of a description mentioned in column 2 of that entry; and

(b)that drug, medicine or other substance is prescribed for that patient only for the purpose specified in column 3 of that entry.