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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-medicines-act-1968-amendment-regulations-1977/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1977/1050",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Medicines Act 1968 Amendment) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-medicines-act-1968-amendment-regulations-1977",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend the Medicines Act 1968 so as to enable the implementation of certain Community obligations under two Council Directives Nos. 65/65/EEC and 75/319/EEC which relate to proprietary medicinal products.\nThe amendments relate to—\n(a)requirements to hold licences by persons responsible for placing proprietary medicinal products on the market and by distributors of such products imported from outside the European Economic Community (regulations 2 and 3);\n(b)the treatment of dossiers forwarded to the licensing authority under Article 9 of Council Directive 75/319/EEC as applications for product licences (regulation 4(2));\n(c)refusal, suspension and revocation of licences (regulation 4(3) and (5); and\n(d)duration of licences which are not in accordance with Community obligations (regulation 4(4)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/1050/note",
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  "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."
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