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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-aristolochia-and-mu-tong-etc-temporary-prohibition-order-2000/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1368",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Aristolochia and Mu Tong etc.) (Temporary Prohibition) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-aristolochia-and-mu-tong-etc-temporary-prohibition-order-2000",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions to the prohibitions imposed by articles 2 and 3 above",
  "text": "(1) The prohibitions imposed by articles 2 and 3 above are subject to the exceptions specified in the following paragraphs of this article.\n(2) The prohibitions imposed by articles 2 and 3 above shall not apply where a medicinal product as referred to in those articles is sold or supplied to, or, in the case of importation, is imported by or on behalf of, any of the following persons—\n(a) a food analyst or food examiner within the meaning of section 30 of the Food Safety Act 1990;\n(b) a food analyst or food examiner within the meaning of Article 30 or 31 of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n(c) an authorised officer within the meaning of section 5(6) of the Food Safety Act 1990, or Article 2(2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n(d) a person duly authorised by an enforcement authority under sections 111 and 112 of the Act;\n(e) a sampling officer within the meaning of Schedule 3 to the Act.\n(3) The prohibitions on importation imposed by articles 2 and 3 above shall not apply where a medicinal product as referred to in those articles is imported—\n(a) from a member State of the European Community; or\n(b) where the product originates in the European Economic Area, from an EEA State which is not also a member State of the European Community.\n(4) The prohibitions imposed by articles 2 and 3 above shall not apply where a medicinal product as referred to in those articles is the subject of a product licence, a marketing authorization within the meaning of regulation 1(4)(a) of the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations 1994 or a certificate of registration within the meaning of regulation 1(2) of the Medicines (Homoeopathic Products for Human Use) Regulations 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16: section 30 was amended by section 40 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to, the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7); as amended by S.I. 1996/1633 (N.I. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 5(b) was amended by section 40 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to, the Food Standards Act 1999; article 2(2) was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 5 to, and Schedule 6 to, that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See Protocol 4 (on rules of origin) annexed to the EEA Agreement, as amended by the Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No. 6/94 amending Protocol 4 to the EEA Agreement (OJ No. L95, 14.4.94, p. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "“Product licence” has the meaning assigned to it by section 7 of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3144; as amended by S.I. 1994/3105, 1998/3105 and 2000/292."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/105; as amended by S.I. 1994/899, 1995/541, 1996/482, 1998/574, 1999/566 and 2000/592."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1368/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:09.942800+00:00"
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  "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."
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