{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/915",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2006",
  "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) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st May 2006.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the POM Order” means the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997; and\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, 2005/765, 1507 and 3324."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1924; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/1919, 2004/1 and 1771, 2005/766 and 2745."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/915/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:33:08.777847+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."
}