{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-contact-lens-fluids-and-other-substances-termination-of-transitional-exemptions-order-1981/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-contact-lens-fluids-and-other-substances-termination-of-transitional-exemptions-order-1981/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1690",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Termination of Transitional Exemptions) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-contact-lens-fluids-and-other-substances-termination-of-transitional-exemptions-order-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order appoints the 1st July 1983 as the day upon which the transitional exemptions under section 16 of the Medicines Act 1968 shall cease to have effect as regards fluids and substances used in relation to contact lenses or blanks.\nCertain provisions of the Medicines Act 1968 were applied to these fluids and substances by the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1690/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:30:20.215365+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."
}