{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-leaflets-regulations-1977/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-leaflets-regulations-1977/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/1055",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Leaflets) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-leaflets-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“medicinal product” has the same meaning as in section 130(1)(a) of the Act;\n“proprietary medicinal product” means—\n(a) a ready-prepared medicinal product placed on the market in the United Kingdom under a special name and in a special pack,\n(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a) “medicinal product” does not include—\n(i) vaccines, toxins or serums,\n(ii) medicinal products based on human blood or blood constituents or radioactive isotopes,\n(iii) homoeopathic medicinal products, or\n(iv) veterinary drugs;\nand other expressions have the same meanings as in the Act or in the Medicines (Labelling) Regulations 1976 as amended\n(2) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to any enactment, order or regulations shall be construed as a reference to that enactment or order or those regulations, as the case may be, as amended, extended or re-enacted by any other enactment, order or regulations.\n(3) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the purposes of the interpretation of these regulations as they apply for the purposes of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1976 III, p. 4570)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/996 (1977 II, p. 2813)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3274",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Leaflets) Amendment Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3274",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Leaflets) Amendment Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3274",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Leaflets) Amendment Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/104",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Labelling and Leaflets) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/104",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Labelling and Leaflets) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/1055/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:56:58.709390+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."
}