{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prohibition of advertisements referring to specified diseases",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2)\nand 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.\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1552",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Amendment Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1480",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Amendment Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "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/6",
    "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."
}