{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-for-merchants-in-veterinary-drugs-order-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-for-merchants-in-veterinary-drugs-order-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1044",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemptions for Merchants in Veterinary Drugs) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-for-merchants-in-veterinary-drugs-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 9th April 1998\nLaid before Parliament 15th April 1998\nComing into force 6th May 1998\nThe Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57(1), (2) and (2A) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them, 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 in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, and with the consent of the Treasury in accordance with section 57(2A) of that Act in relation to revocations, and the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to medicinal products and the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) in relation to revocations, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in section 57 is defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote); section 57(2A) was inserted by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), section 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/338, in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272 and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1044/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."
}