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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968-commencement-no-2-order-1972/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1225",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines Act 1968 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968-commencement-no-2-order-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 8th August 1972\nThe Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food acting jointly, in exercise of their powers under section 136(3) of the Medicines Act 1968, (as having effect subject to the provisions or Article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 and section 1(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following order, hereby make the following order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1969 I, p. 1070)."
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  ],
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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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