{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-aristolochia-and-mu-tong-etc-prohibition-order-2001/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-aristolochia-and-mu-tong-etc-prohibition-order-2001/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1841",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Aristolochia and Mu Tong etc.) (Prohibition) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-aristolochia-and-mu-tong-etc-prohibition-order-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Aristolochia and Mu Tong etc.) (Prohibition) Order 2001, and shall come into force on 1st July 2001.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“approved country for import” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;\n...\n...\n...\n“medicinal product” does not include a medicinal product which is a veterinary drug.\n...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 1 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 5(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 5(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) omitted (1.4.2008) by virtue of The Medicines for Human Use (Prohibition) (Senecio and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/548), arts. 1(1), 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.7.2001, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1841/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:48:41.565575+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."
}