{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-order-2005/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-order-2005/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3324",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-order-2005",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 6th January 2006.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the POM Order” means the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997;\n“the Pharmacy and General Sale Order” means the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) Order 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1998/108 and 2081, 2002/549, 2003/696, 1590 and 2915, 2004/2, 1189, 1771 and 2693, and 2005/765, 848 and 1507."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1924; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/766 and 1507."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3324/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:54.458593+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."
}