{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licensing-radiopharmaceuticals-order-1992/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licensing-radiopharmaceuticals-order-1992/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2844",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemption from Licensing) (Radiopharmaceuticals) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemption-from-licensing-radiopharmaceuticals-order-1992",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, interpretation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemption from Licensing) (Radiopharmaceuticals) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 11th December 1992.\n(2) In this Order—\n“generator” means any system incorporating a fixed parent radionuclide from which is produced a daughter radionuclide which is to be removed by elution or by any other method and is to be used in a radiopharmaceutical;\n“kit” means any preparation to be reconstituted or combined with radionuclides in a final radiopharmaceutical, usually prior to its administration;\n“precursor” means a radionuclide produced for the radio-labelling of another substance prior to its administration, other than a radionuclide which is incorporated in or produced from a generator or is included in a radiopharmaceutical;\n“radiopharmaceutical” means any medicinal product which when ready for use contains one or more radionuclides included for a medicinal purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2844/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:54.748090+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."
}