{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-assembly-order-1979/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-assembly-order-1979/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1114",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Assembly) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-assembly-order-1979",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Coming into effect and duration of exemption",
  "text": "(1) Any exemption under the provisions of this Order shall have effect from the date of a direction in writing that it shall do so from the licensing authority to the person seeking exemption or a registering body of which he is a member.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of Article 2(1) and 4, any such exemption applying to a person not being a member of a registering body shall continue in force for a period of five years from the date on which it has effect. If before the end of such a period the licensing authority receive from that person a further notification in the form described in Article 2(2)(c), that exemption shall continue in force for a further period of five years and the licensing authority shall notify him accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1114/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:13:31.786371+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."
}