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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-control-of-substances-for-manufacture-order-1971/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-control-of-substances-for-manufacture-order-1971/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1200",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Control of Substances for Manufacture) Order 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-control-of-substances-for-manufacture-order-1971",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 23rd July 1971\nLaid before Parliament 3rd August 1971\nComing into Operation 1st September 1971\nThe Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and in Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland, the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of their powers under section 105(1)(a) of the Medicines Act 1968, as having effect subject to the provisions of article 2(2) of and Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this order and after taking into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the advice of the Veterinary Products Committee, hereby order as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1969 I, p. 1070)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1200/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."
}