{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Audio-visual advertisements",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 17 and 22(2), no person shall issue in a programme service or video recording any advertisement relating to a relevant medicinal product which includes or shows any words, unless that advertisement—\n(a) contains essential information compatible with the summary of product characteristics, and\n(b) refers to the particulars contained in paragraphs 1 to 8 of Schedule 2.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation the particulars contained in Schedule 2 may (where appropriate) be supplied by way of written material made available to all persons to whom the advertisement is shown or sent as an alternative to being referred to in the advertisement.\n(3) In this regulation, “programme service” has the meaning assigned to it in section201 of the Broadcasting Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Contravention of regulation 12 is an offence by virtue of section 67(2) of the Act, for which the penalties specified in section 67(4) apply."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1932/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:56.939995+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."
}