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The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 2003

Medicines

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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2016-01-14

MEDICINES

This Order amends the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 (“the principal Order”) which specifies the descriptions and classes of medicines (“prescription only medicines”) which, subject to exemptions specified in the Order, may be sold or supplied only in accordance with the prescription of an “appropriate practitioner”, and may be administered only by or in accordance with the directions of such a practitioner.