{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prohibition-senecio-and-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prohibition-senecio-and-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/548",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prohibition) (Senecio and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prohibition-senecio-and-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008",
  "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 (Prohibition) (Senecio and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 1st April 2008.\n(2) In article 3 —\n“approved country for import” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“external use” means application to the skin, hair, teeth, mucosa of the mouth, throat, nose, ear, eye, vagina or anal canal when a local action only is intended and extensive systemic absorption is unlikely to occur;\n...\n...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 1 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 10(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 10(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/548/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:35:27.862032+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."
}