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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-medicines-regulations-2012/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1916",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Medicines Regulations 2012",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
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  "number": "2",
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  "text": "(1) The licensing authority must—\n(a) appoint a panel of at least two persons (“the reviewers”) to conduct the review; and\n(b) provide facilities for the applicant to have the opportunity to appear before the reviewers.\n(2) A person must not be appointed under sub-paragraph (1) if within the period of one year immediately preceding that time the person has been a member of—\n(a) the Commission;\n(b) an expert committee appointed by the licensing authority;\n(c) an expert advisory group;\n(d) the British Pharmacopoeia Commission or any of its sub-committees;\n(e) the Advisory Board on the Registration of Homoeopathic Products formerly established under section 4 of the Medicines Act 1968; or\n(f) the Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee formerly established under section 4 of the Medicines Act 1968.\n(3) A person appointed under sub-paragraph (1) must not be an officer or servant of a Minister of the Crown, the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers or a Northern Ireland Minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:34.993203+00:00"
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  "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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