s 1 Prescription only drugs etc.: authorisation of registered nurses, midwives and health visitors.
(1) In section 58 of the Medicines Act 1968 (medicinal products on prescription only) in subsection (1) (which specifies who are to be appropriate practitioners in relation to specified descriptions or classes of medicinal products) at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be inserted and (d) registered nurses, midwives and health visitors who are of such a description and comply with such conditions as may be specified in the order (2) In subsection (4) of that section (orders providing for exemptions etc.) at the end of paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the words “ or, where the appropriate practitioner is a registered nurse, midwife or health visitor, such modifications as may be so specified ” . (3) In subsection (5) of that section (exemptions may be subject to conditions or limitations)— (a) after the words “exemption conferred” there shall be inserted the words “ or modification made ” , and (b) after the word “conferred”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “ or made ” .