{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-medicines-amendments-relating-to-hub-and-spoke-dispensing-etc-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348271577",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-medicines-amendments-relating-to-hub-and-spoke-dispensing-etc-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Medicines Act 1968",
  "text": "(1) The Medicines Act 1968 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 10 (exemptions for pharmacists), in subsection (1)(b)(i), omit “forming part of the same retail pharmacy business”.\n(3) Omit section 131 (meaning of “wholesale dealing”, “retail sale” and related expressions).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Amendments have been made to subsection (1) by the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 8), Schedule 3, paragraph 5(a), and by S.I. 1971/1445, 2006/2407, 2012/1916 and 2022/849."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 131 has been amended by: the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 128(2); the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Schedule 16, paragraph 30; the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), Schedule 1, paragraph 44; and S.I. 2012/1916."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348271577/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:14.485023+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}