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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/schedule-31/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1916",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines Regulations 2012",
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  "path": "schedule/31/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If a sample consists of substances or articles in unopened containers, the sampling officer may divide the sample into parts by dividing the containers into three lots without opening them if it appears to the sampling officer that—\n(a) it is not reasonably practicable to open the containers and divide the contents into parts; or\n(b) opening the containers and dividing the contents into parts might affect the composition or impede the analysis or other examination of the contents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/schedule/31/paragraph/11",
    "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."
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