{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/section-91",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968/section-91.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/67",
  "legislation_title": "Medicines Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-act-1968",
  "path": "section/91",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "91",
  "heading": "Offences under Part V, and supplementary provisions.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Any regulations made under this Part of this Act may provide that any person who contravenes the regulations, or who contravenes the provisions of ... section 87(2) of this Act ..., shall be guilty of an offence and—\n(a) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400 or such lesser sum as may be specified in the regulations, and\n(b) if the regulations so provide, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.\n(3) Without prejudice to the application of section 129(5) of this Act, any power to make regulations conferred by section 87 of this Act may be exercised so as to impose requirements either in relation to medicinal products generally or in relation to medicinal products of a particular description, or falling within a particular class, specified in the regulations....\n(4) In this Part of this Act “requirements” includes restrictions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 91(1) repealed (14.8.2012) by virtue of The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 14(a), Sch. 35 (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 91(2) omitted (14.8.2012) by virtue of The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 14(b) (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 91(2) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2407), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 48(b) (with regs. 2(4), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 91(3) substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 14(c) (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 91(3) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2407), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 48(c) (with regs. 2(4), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 85–88, 91 extended by S.I. 1984/187, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 91 applied (with modifications) (3.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/605, reg. 2(1)(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38 (increase of fines) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply (E.W.) and Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G (increase of fines and substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply (S.) and S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), art. 5 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) and art. 6 (increase of fines) apply (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. V (ss. 85–91) extended with modifications by S.I. 1985/1403, art. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/67/section/91",
    "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."
}