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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-emergency-importation-order-1974/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-emergency-importation-order-1974/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/316",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Emergency Importation) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-emergency-importation-order-1974",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 26th February 1974\nLaid before Parliament 6th March 1974\nComing into Operation 7th March 1974\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 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Head of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Head of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by section 13(2) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them 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 the following order, hereby make the following order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of Article 2(2) of and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388(1969 I, p.1070)), and in the case of the Heads of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/316/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."
}