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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-manufacturers-undertakings-for-imported-products-regulations-1977/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1977/1038",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Manufacturer's Undertakings for Imported Products) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-manufacturers-undertakings-for-imported-products-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “medicinal product” includes, where a product licence relates to any substance or article which is not a medicinal product, the substance or article to which the licence relates or is intended to relate, and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Medicines Act 1968.\n(2) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, extended or re-enacted by any other enactment or by any 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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/2845",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Manufacturer’s Undertakings for Imported Products) Amendment Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3144",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations 1994"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/1038/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:57:12.107747+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."
}