http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/765/contents/madeMedicinesDispensaries and prescription servicesPublic order, justice and rightsThe Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) Order 2005Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-07-04MEDICINES Article 2 of this Order creates a new exemption to the restrictions imposed by sections 7 and 8 of the Medicines Act 1968 (general provisions as to dealing with medicinal products and provisions as to manufacture and wholesale dealing). It provides that the restrictions imposed by those sections shall not apply to the preparation or dispensing or to procuring the preparation or dispensing of a medicinal product for human use in accordance with a presciption given by a supplementary prescriber where this is done by or under the supervision of a pharmacist in a registered pharmacy, hospital or health care centre or, in Scotland, in a care home service. The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) Order 2005 1Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation 2Exemption to the restrictions imposed by sections 7 and 8 of the Medicines Act 1968 3Amendment of article 1 of the POM Order 4Amendment of article 3B of the POM Order 5Amendment of article 13A of the POM Order 6Amendment of article 15 of the POM Order 7Amendment of Schedule 3A to the POM Order 8Amendment of Schedule 5 of the POM Order 2005 No. 765 Made 16th March 2005 Laid before Parliament 17th March 2005 Coming into force 7th April 2005 As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State in England, and , as respects Northern Ireland, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 15(1), 58(1), (4), (4A), (4B) and (5) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968, or, as the case may be, those powers conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, pursuant to sections 58(6) and 129(7) of that Act, and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission, pursuant to section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:— 1968 (c. 67). The expression “the appropriate Ministers” and the expression “the Ministers”, which are relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of this Order, are defined in section 1 of that Act as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, by article 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and by article 5(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/794; section 58 of that Act was amended by section 1 of the Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992 (c. 28) and by section 63 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) and by article 54(3) of, and paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 5 to, S.I. 2002/253. In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1969/388, and articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, by virtue of the powers vested in the Ministers in charge of those Departments by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) which may now be exercised by the Departments by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Departments were renamed by virtue of Article 3(4) and (6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.I.).