{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-340",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/regulation-340.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1916",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/340",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "340",
  "heading": "Presumptions",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies for the purposes of proceedings under these Regulations for an offence consisting of offering a medicinal product for sale by retail in contravention of regulation 220 (sale or supply of products not subject to general sale) or 221 (sale or supply of products subject to general sale).\n(2) If it is proved that the medicinal product in question was found on a vehicle from which medicinal products are sold, it is to be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the person in charge of the vehicle offered the medicinal product for sale.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies for the purposes of proceedings under these Regulations for an offence consisting of a contravention of a provision within paragraph (5), where it is proved that the medicinal product in question was found on premises at which the person charged with the offence carries on a business consisting of or including the sale or supply of medicinal products.\n(4) It is to be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the person charged possessed the medicinal product for the purpose of sale or supply.\n(5) The provisions within this paragraph are regulations 268 (offences relating to packaging and package leaflets in Great Britain: authorisation holders), 268A (offences relating to packaging and package leaflets in Northern Ireland: authorisation holders), 269 (offences relating to packaging and package leaflets in Great Britain: other persons), 269A (offences relating to packaging and package leaflets in Northern Ireland: other persons) and 276 (offences: requirements relating to child safety) to the extent that they establish an offence based on possession of a medicinal product for the purpose of sale or supply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 340(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/775, reg. 224ZC (as inserted by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1488), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 183)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/regulation/340",
    "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."
}