{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-bal-jivan-chamcho-prohibition-no2-order-1977/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-bal-jivan-chamcho-prohibition-no2-order-1977/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/670",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Bal Jivan Chamcho Prohibition) (No.2) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-bal-jivan-chamcho-prohibition-no2-order-1977",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 4th April 1977\nLaid before Parliament 19th April 1977\nComing into Operation 10th May 1977\nThe Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by section 62(1)(a) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, it appearing to them to be necessary in the interests of safety to make the following order, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the order, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, hereby make the following order:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of Article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388 (1969 I, p. 1070)), and in the case of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1257 (1970 II, p. 4098)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/670/introduction",
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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."
}