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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006-commencement-no-6-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006-commencement-no-6-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day for provisions relating to medicines and pharmacies",
  "text": "1st October 2009 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Health Act 2006—\n(a) sections 27, 28, 29 and 31;\n(b) section 30 in so far as it is not already in force; and\n(c) in Schedule 9, the repeal of paragraph (b) and the “and” immediately preceding it in section 77 of the Medicines Act 1968.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 83(1)(e) of the Health Act 2006 commenced section 30 of that Act on Royal Assent in so far as it confers a power to make regulations or defines any expression relevant to the exercise of any such power."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c.67."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2714/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:23:13.462822+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."
}