{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-order-1971/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-order-1971/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1410",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Foods and Cosmetics) Order 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-order-1971",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exemption from licences for certain foods and cosmetics",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this Article, the restrictions imposed by sections 7 and 8 of the Act (licences for dealings in and manufacture of medicinal products) shall not apply to anything done in relation to a medicinal product which is wholly or mainly for use by being administered to one or more human beings and which is or is to be for sale either for oral administration as a food or for external use as a cosmetic.\n(2) The exemption conferred by the preceding paragraph of this Article does not apply to a medicinal product as aforesaid which—\n(a) is or is to be sold with, accompanied by or having in relation to it, any particulars in writing specifying that product's curative or remedial function in relation to a disease specified or the use of that product for such curative or remedial purposes, or\n(b) being a product for oral administration as a food as aforesaid, comes within any of the descriptions contained in the Schedule to this order, or\n(c) being a product for external use as a cosmetic as aforesaid contains any antibiotic or any hormone in a proportion in excess of 0.4 per cent or resorcinol in a proportion in excess of 1 per cent (the said proportions calculated on the weight of the medicinal product), or\n(d) being neither a vitamin preparation nor a substance coming within the description in paragraph 3 of the said Schedule, is or is to be sold with, accompanied by or having in relation to it any particulars in writing specifying the dosage relevant to that product's medicinal purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1410/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:41:15.562274+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."
}