{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Any person who contravenes regulations 3(1), 4, 6(1)\nor (3), 7, 8, 10(1), 14(1), 15(1), 16, 18(1), (2) or (3), 20(2) or (3), 21(1) or (3), or 22(1)(a)shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum,\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.\n(2) Any person who contravenes regulation 19 or 21(5)\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Advertising and Monitoring of Advertising) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2787",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Advertising Amendments) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2787",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Advertising Amendments) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1932/regulation/23",
    "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."
}