{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-labelling-and-advertising-to-the-public-regulations-1978/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-labelling-and-advertising-to-the-public-regulations-1978/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Labelling and Advertising to the Public) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-labelling-and-advertising-to-the-public-regulations-1978",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition of advertisements for medicinal products on prescription only",
  "text": "Subject to the following provisions of these regulations, no advertisement shall be issued likely to lead to the use of any medicinal product which is for use by being administered to human beings and is of a description or falling within a class specified—\n(a) in any order made under section 58(1) of the Act (medicinal products on prescription only) which is subject to the restrictions imposed by section 58(2) of the Act, or\n(b) in any order made under section 62(1) of the Act which prohibits the retail sale or the supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale of that medicinal product except where such sale or supply—\n(i) takes place on premises which are a registered pharmacy and is by or under the supervision of a pharmacist in accordance with a prescription given by a doctor or a dentist, or\n(ii) is by a doctor or dentist to his patient or to a person responsible for the care of his patient.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/41/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:42:01.140544+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."
}