{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-special-cases-and-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1972/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-special-cases-and-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1972/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1200",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Special Cases and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licences-special-cases-and-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1972",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Variation of Article 2 of the Special Cases Order",
  "text": "Article 2 of the Special Cases Order (exemption from product licences for certain special manufactured products) shall be varied as follows:—\n(a) in paragraph (2)(i)(a) after the word “Act” there shall be inserted the words “or Article 2(1)(a) of the Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Special Cases and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1972”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)(i)(b) after the word “Act” there shall be inserted the words “or Article 2(1)(b) of the said Order of 1972”;\n(c) for sub-paragraph (i)(c) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following:—\n“(c) for use in a registered pharmacy, a hospital or a health centre under the supervision of a pharmacist either in circumstances to which section 10 of the Act (as modified by the Medicines (Retail Pharmacists—Exemption from Licensing Requirements) Order 1971) or Article 2(1)(c) of the said Order of 1972 relates, or, as respects a substance that is a medicinal product by virtue of its use as an ingredient in accordance with the provisions of section 130(1)(b) of the Act, where such substance is to be used only as such an ingredient in the preparation or dispensing of a medicinal product in accordance with a prescription given by a practitioner, being a prescription which relates to a medicinal product which is for administration to a particular patient of that practitioner or as the case may by to a particular animal or herd which is under his care.”;\n(d) for sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following:—\n“(ii) that no advertisement (within the meaning of section 92 of the Act) relating to the medicinal product is issued with a view to it being seen generally by the public in the United Kingdom, that no advertisement relating to that product by means of any catalogue, price list or circular letter is issued by, at the request or with the consent of, the person selling that product by retail or by way of wholesale dealing or supplying it in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, or the person who manufactures it, and that the sale or supply as aforesaid is in response to a bona fide unsolicited order;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1971/1445(1971 III, p. 4078)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1200/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:28:05.989393+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."
}