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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/active-implantable-medical-devices-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3146",
  "legislation_title": "The Active Implantable Medical Devices Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/active-implantable-medical-devices-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Requirements as to design and construction",
  "text": "The device shall bear a code by which it and its manufacturer can be unequivocably identified (particularly with regard to the type of device and year of manufacture) and which can be read, if necessary, without the need for a surgical operation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/236",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Codification Amendments Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/236",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Codification Amendments Etc.) Regulations 2002"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3146/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:16.889291+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}