{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-advertising-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Prohibition of advertisements relating to certain medicinal products",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 11, no person shall issue an advertisement relating to any relevant medicinal product which—\n(a) contains 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 Schedule III to that Convention); or\n(b) contains 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Narcotic Drugs Convention and the Psychotropic Substances Convention are defined in section 58A(5) of the Act. Section 58A was inserted into the Act by S.I. 1992/3271."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1932/regulation/8",
    "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."
}