Schedule 22, paragraph 3

A contract for the supply of goods, services or digital content where the supply— is made for purposes relating to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, or otherwise relating to a person’s physical or mental health, and is— made under, or in connection with, a prescription or directions given by a prescriber, or of a medicinal product which is administered by a prescriber. In sub-paragraph (1)— “illness” means physical or mental illness; “medicinal product” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/ 1916); “prescriber”— in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered, in England, has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/349); in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered, in Wales, has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I 2020/1073 (W. 241); in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered, in Scotland, has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/183) but as if that definition included “a dentist”; in relation to a prescription or directions given, or a medicinal product administered in Northern Ireland, has the meaning given by the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. (N.I.) 1997 No. 381).

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