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Registration confers many privileges and obligations, and legislation restricts a number of activities - for example, the right to prescribe prescription-only medicines - to registered persons.
You can find relevant legislation, listing these activities, by following the links below :
- Acts of Parliament (337kb,
pdf) - Statutory Instrument (151kb, pdf)
- Statutory Instrument (without commentary) (177kb, pdf)