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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968-commencement-no-3-order-1973/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968-commencement-no-3-order-1973/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/1529",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines Act 1968 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968-commencement-no-3-order-1973",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 29th August 1973\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 powers conferred by section 136(3) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them 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": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales under the provisions of Article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 S.I. 1969/388 (1969 I, p. 1070), and in the case of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland under the provisions of section 1(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972 (1972 c. 22)."
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1529/introduction",
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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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