{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-contact-lens-fluids-and-other-substances-labelling-regulations-1979/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-contact-lens-fluids-and-other-substances-labelling-regulations-1979/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1759",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-contact-lens-fluids-and-other-substances-labelling-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“administer” has the same meaning as in section 130(9) of the Act as modified by Article 2 of, and paragraph 9 of Part II of Schedule 2 to, the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976;\n“contact lens substance” means any substance or fluid described in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976;\n“description” has the same meaning as in section 130(8) of the Act;\n“selling by retail” has the same meaning as in section 131(3) of the Act;\n“selling by way of wholesale dealing” has the same meaning as in section 131(1) and (2) of the Act; and\n“supplying in circumstances corresponding to retail sale” has the same meaning as in section 131(4) of the Act.\n(2) In these regulations, a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation of these regulations bearing that number and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1759/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:07:28.012549+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."
}