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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/67",
  "legislation_title": "Medicines Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Ministers responsible for administration of Act.",
  "text": "In this Act, “the Ministers” has the meaning given by regulation 6(6) to (8) of the 2012 Regulations (but as if references in that regulation to those Regulations were references to this Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1 substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916) , reg. 1(2) , Sch. 34 para. 2 (with Sch. 32 )"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 extended (3.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/605, regs. 2(4), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. I(ss. 1–5) extended by S.I. 1984/187, art. 2"
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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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