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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-special-and-transitional-cases-order-1971/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-special-and-transitional-cases-order-1971/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1450",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Special and Transitional Cases) Order 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-special-and-transitional-cases-order-1971",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 27th August 1971\nLaid before Parliament 2nd September 1971\nComing into Operation 1st September 1971\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 Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of their powers under sections 15(1) and 23(4) 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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1969 I p. 1070)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1450/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:40:55.215274+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."
}