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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-marketing-authorisations-etc-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3144",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations 1994",
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  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Marketing authorizations for relevant medicinal products",
  "text": "(1) Except in accordance with any exception or exemption set out in the relevant Community provisions and subject to paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 1—\n(a) no relevant medicinal product shall be placed on the market; and\n(b) no such product shall be distributed by way of wholesale dealing,\nunless a marketing authorization in respect of that product has been granted in accordance with the relevant Community provisions by the licensing authority or the European Commission, and is for the time being in force in accordance with those provisions.\n(2) Schedule 1 shall have effect for the purpose of making certain exceptions or exemptions from paragraph (1), and for imposing certain obligations in connection with such exceptions and exemptions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2759",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3144/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:07.489272+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."
}