{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-and-certificates-clinical-trials-order-1995/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-and-certificates-clinical-trials-order-1995/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2809",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences and Certificates) (Clinical Trials) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-and-certificates-clinical-trials-order-1995",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemption from Licences and Certificates) (Clinical Trials) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 8th December 1995 immediately after the Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Clinical Trials) Order 1995 comes into force.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“medicinal product” includes any substance or article for human use specified in an order made under section 104 or 105(1)(b) of the Act (application of Act to certain articles and substances and to certain other substances which are not medicinal products) which is for the time being in force and which directs that sections 31 and 35(8) and (9) of the Act shall have effect in relation to that substance or article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2808."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Medicines (Surgical Materials) Order 1971 (S.I. 1971/1267), the Medicines (Dental Filling Substances) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975/533) and the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976 (1976/968), each amended by the Medical Devices (Consequential Amendments – Medicines) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3119)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2809/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:59:10.406521+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."
}