{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-intra-uterine-contraceptive-devices-termination-of-transitional-exemptions-order-1980/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-intra-uterine-contraceptive-devices-termination-of-transitional-exemptions-order-1980/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1467",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices) (Termination of Transitional Exemptions) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-intra-uterine-contraceptive-devices-termination-of-transitional-exemptions-order-1980",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order appoints the 31st October 1980 as the day upon which the transitional exemptions under section 16 of the Medicines Act 1968 shall cease to have effect in relation to intra-uterine contraceptive devices.\nCertain provisions of the Medicines Act 1968 were applied to these devices by the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1467/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:53:27.099913+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."
}