{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-extension-to-antimicrobial-substances-order-1973/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-extension-to-antimicrobial-substances-order-1973/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/367",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Extension to Antimicrobial Substances) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-extension-to-antimicrobial-substances-order-1973",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order extends certain specified provisions of the Medicines Act 1968 concerning such matters as the holding of licences, the provision of information, the commission of offences, the prohibition of sale, supply or importation, and the promotion of sales to the classes of substances set out in the Schedule to this Order, so that those provisions, subject to certain exceptions and modifications, will also apply to those classes of substances as those provisions apply to medicinal products.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/367/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:14:00.252132+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."
}