- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 7 obligations carry a fine up to £400. 6 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Trader3
Any Person3
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Trader — also bound by 864 other Acts
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995
416 duties
Companies Act 2006
244 duties
Companies Act 1985
85 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.002
Enforcement of sections 53, 54 and 66
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Pharmaceutical Society must enforce medicines rules on pharmacy and vet premisesStatutory regulator
s.003
Safekeeping of certain veterinary drugs
Regulated
- Store retail veterinary drugs away from the public and follow label storage instructionsAny Person
s.005
Restrictions on persons to be supplied with certain medicinal products
Regulated
- Restrict wholesale supply of prescription-only and pharmacy medicinesTrader
s.006
Pharmacy records
Regulated
- Keep a register of prescription-only medicine sales and preserve it for 2 yearsTrader
s.007
Record keeping in respect of certain veterinary drugs
Regulated
- Keep two-year sale records for exempt veterinary drugsAny Person
s.008
Pack size on retail sale or supply of certain medicinal products on a general sale list
Regulated
- Sell listed medicines only in permitted pack sizes outside pharmaciesTrader
s.009
Offences
Prosecution
- Fail to comply with medicines sale or supply regulationsAny Person
Fine up to £400
8 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation, commencement and interpretation
s.004
Location of automatic machines
s.010
Revocations
s.para.11
Practitioners.
s.para.12
Persons lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business within the meaning...
s.para.13
Authorities or persons carrying on the business of a hospital...
s.para.14
Holders of wholesale dealer's licences or persons to whom the...
s.para.15
Ministers of the Crown and Government departments and officers thereof....
Schedules
Schedules
0 of 4 shown4 other schedules
s.sch002
Subject to paragraph 2, where the sale or supply of...
s.sch002
Where the sale or supply is in pursuance of a...
s.sch002
Where the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine...
s.sch002
Where the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine...
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.