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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1697",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force—\n(a) except for the purposes of regulations 3(b), 6, 7 and 9, on 1st September 2003; and\n(b) for the purposes of regulations 3(b), 6, 7 and 9, on 1st April 2004.\n(2) In these Regulations, the “principal Regulations” means the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/618."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1697/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:16:48.278874+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."
}