Schedule 2: Exempted activities
This Schedule lists exempted activities for the purposes of section 11.
	Paragraphs 1 to 2 exempt health care professionals acting in their professional capacity. "Health care professional" is defined in the same way as in regulation 8 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916):
“health care professional” means—
(a) a doctor;
(b) a dentist;
(c) a pharmacist;
(d) a pharmacy technician registered in Part 2 or 5 of the Register of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians established and maintained under article 19(2) of the Pharmacy Order 2010;
(e) a registered nurse;
(f) a registered midwife;
(g) a registered optometrist;
(h) a registered osteopath as defined in section 41 of the Osteopaths Act 1993;
(i) a registered chiropractor as defined in section 43 of the Chiropractors Act 1994;
(j) a person registered as a member of a relevant profession within the meaning of article 2 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001, other than a social worker, in the Health and Care Professions Council register; or
(k) a person registered in the dental care professionals register established and maintained under section 36B of the Dentists Act 1984 as a member of a profession complementary to dentistry specified by regulation 2 of the General Dental Council (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) Regulations 2006
	Paragraph 3 exempts anybody carrying on an activity in respect of an active substance who is registered under regulation 45N of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, or who is exempt from being registered under regulation 45M of those Regulations. "Active substance" is defined in regulation 8 of those Regulations as: “any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used in the manufacture of a medicinal product and that, when used in its production, becomes an active ingredient of that product intended to exert a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action with a view to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions or to make a medical diagnosis".
	As the relevant offences of this Act only concern human consumption, all research on psychoactive substances which does not involve human consumption is already outside of the scope of the Act. Paragraph 4 adds to this by exempting activities performed in the course of, or in connection with, approved scientific research as defined in that paragraph.