{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/section-132",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/section-132.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/67",
  "legislation_title": "Medicines Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968",
  "path": "section/132",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "132",
  "heading": "General interpretation provisions.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n(a) unless the context otherwise requires, any expression defined by any provision of the 2012 Regulations , and not defined in this Act, has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of those Regulations; and\n(b) “the 2012 Regulations ” means the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any reference in this Act to the holder of a ... certificate shall be construed as a reference to the holder of a ... certificate which is for the time being in force.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 132(1) substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 33(a) (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 132(2)(3) repealed (14.8.2012) by virtue of The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 33(b), Sch. 35 (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 132(4) omitted (14.8.2012) by virtue of The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 33(c) (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 132(5) repealed (14.8.2012) by virtue of The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 33(d), Sch. 35 (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 132 extended (3.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/605, regs. 2(4), 3S. 132 applied (1.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3142, reg. 18(2)S. 132 applied (31.3.1997) by S.I. 1997/322, reg. 34, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 132(1) applied (with modifications) (1.5.2004) by Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1031), regs. 1, 47, Schs. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 132(1) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2004/1031 reg. 47 Sch. 9 (29.8.2006) by Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1928), regs. 1(1), 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. VIII (ss. 104–136) extended by S.I.s 1982/425, art. 3, 1984/187 art. 2; and extended with modifications by S.I. 1985/403, art. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/67/section/132",
    "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."
}