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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-amendment-order-1973/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-amendment-order-1973/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/2079",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Foods and Cosmetics) Amendment Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-amendment-order-1973",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 10th December 1973\nLaid before Parliament 18th December 1973\nComing into Operation 8th January 1974\nThe Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland, and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by section 15(1) 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 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland by virtue of the provisions of Section 1(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 22)."
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  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/2079/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."
}