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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-data-sheet-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2420",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Data Sheet) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-data-sheet-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 2 of the Medicines (Data Sheet) Regulations 1972 (“the principal Regulations”) prescribes the form of data sheets falling within section 96 of the Medicines Act 1968.\nThese Regulations remove certain requirements relating to the compilation of data sheets for medicinal products for human use by inserting a new regulation 2A into the principal Regulations (regulation 4). They also revoke transitional provisions in the principal Regulations (regulation 8).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2420/note",
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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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