{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-244",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-244.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1916",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/244",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "244",
  "heading": "Exemption in cases involving another's default",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 214(1) does not apply to the sale or supply of a prescription only medicine by a person if the person, having exercised all due diligence, believes on reasonable grounds that the product is not a prescription only medicine.\n(2) Regulation 220 does not apply to the sale or supply, or offer for sale or supply of a medicinal product by a person if—\n(a) the person, having exercised all due diligence, believes on reasonable grounds that the product is subject to general sale;\n(b) that belief is due to the act or default of another person; and\n(c) the conditions in regulation 221 are met in relation to the sale or supply, or offer for sale or supply of the product.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/regulation/244",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:34.993203+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."
}