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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-and-medical-devices-act-2021/section-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/3",
  "legislation_title": "Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-and-medical-devices-act-2021",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Fees, offences, powers of inspectors",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under section 2(1) may make provision—\n(a) about the charging of fees in connection with the exercise of a function conferred by a human medicines provision,\n(b) creating a criminal offence of failing to comply with a provision made in the regulations, or\n(c) applying relevant powers of entry or other powers of inspectors with or without modification in relation to a prohibition or requirement in provision made in the regulations.\n(2) Regulations under section 2(1) may not provide for an offence to be punishable with a sentence of imprisonment of more than two years.\n(3) In subsection (1), “relevant powers of entry or other powers of inspectors” means powers of entry or powers of inspectors in—\n(a) Part 8 of the Medicines Act 1968;\n(b) the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1031);\n(c) Part 16 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916).\n(4) In this Part, “human medicines provision” means a provision in—\n(a) regulations under section 2(1),\n(b) the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, or\n(c) the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6(4) in force at 11.2.2021 see s. 50(1)(c)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/3/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:59:13.676472+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."
}