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Regulation 6 Prohibition of advertisements referring to specified diseases

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (2)

and to regulation 11, no person shall issue an advertisement which is likely to lead to the use of a relevant medicinal product for the purpose of the treatment, prevention or diagnosis of any disease specified in, or any disease falling within a class of disease specified in, Schedule 1.

(2)

Paragraph (1) shall not be taken to prohibit a person from issuing an advertisement which is likely to lead to the use of a relevant medicinal product for the purpose of the prevention of neural tube defects.

(3)

No person shall issue an advertisement which is likely to lead to the use of a relevant medicinal product or any other medicinal product, substance or article for the purpose of inducing an abortion in women.