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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-foods-and-cosmetics-order-1971/introduction",
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  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 23rd August 1971\nLaid before Parliament 3rd September 1971\nComing into Operation 6th September 1971\nThe Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of their powers under section 15(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 (as having effect subject to the provisions of Article 2(2) of and Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969) 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": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1969 I, p. 1070)."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1410/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."
}