{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/schedule-3/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/schedule-3/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/67",
  "legislation_title": "Medicines Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any such arrangements as are mentioned in paragraph 15(b) or paragraph 16 of this Schedule,—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) if ... they are made by an enforcement authority in England and Wales other than the Secretary of State, shall be arrangements approved by the Secretary of State;\n(c) if they are made by an enforcement authority in Scotland other than the Secretary of State, shall be arrangements approved by the Secretary of State;\nand any such arrangements as are mentioned in paragraph 15(b) of this Schedule, if made by the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland in Northern Ireland, shall be arrangements approved by the Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 17(a) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2407), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 68(a) (with regs. 2(4), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 17(b) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2407), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 68(b) (with regs. 2(4), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1968/1699, arts. 2, 5(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 17 substituted (14.8.2012) by virtue of The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 34(d)(i) (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 17 substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 34(d)(ii) (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Secretary of State in matters only affecting Wales exercisable by Secretary of State for Wales: S.I. 1969/388, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/67/schedule/3/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:43.456849+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."
}