{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Free samples",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies only to the supply of a free sample of a relevant medicinal product to a person who receives it for the purpose of acquiring experience in dealing with such a product.\n(2) A person may supply a sample to which this regulation applies only—\n(a) to a person qualified to prescribe relevant medicinal products,\n(b) if the sample is of a medicinal product which does not contain—\n(i) a substance which is listed in any of Schedules I, II or IV to the Narcotic Drugs Convention (where the product is not a preparation listed in ScheduleIII to that Convention), or\n(ii) a substance which is listed in any of Schedules I to IV of the Psychotropic Substances Convention (where the product is not a preparation which may be exempted from measures of control in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of article 3 of that Convention),\nand\n(c) in accordance with Schedule 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1932/regulation/19",
    "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."
}