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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-and-medical-devices-act-2021/section-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Emergencies",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under section 2(1) may make provision about the disapplication of a human medicines provision in circumstances which give rise to a need to protect the public from a risk of serious harm to health.\n(2) Regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) may provide for the disapplication to be subject to—\n(a) conditions set out in the regulations;\n(b) conditions set out in a protocol published by the appropriate authority.\n(3) Where regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) provide that the appropriate authority may publish a protocol setting out conditions, the regulations must provide—\n(a) that the appropriate authority may withdraw or amend the protocol, and\n(b) that the protocol is to have effect only for a period of time specified in the protocol.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/3/section/7",
    "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."
}