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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-medicines-act-1968-amendment-regulations-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1724",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Medicines Act 1968 Amendment) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-medicines-act-1968-amendment-regulations-1983",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend the Medicines Act 1968 (“the Act”) thereby implementing in part Council Directive 81/851/EEC, on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to veterinary medicinal products.\nThe Regulations—\n(1) amend sections 7 and 8 of the Act so as to require persons responsible for placing on the market in the United Kingdom veterinary drugs which are proprietary medicinal products or ready-made veterinary drugs to hold licences and also to require distributors of such drugs imported from outside the European Communities to hold licences (Regulations 2 and 3); and\n(2) amend section 18 of the Act so as to provide that documents forwarded to the licensing authority under Article 17 of Council Directive 81/851/EEC shall be treated as an application for the grant of a product licence under the Act (Regulation 4).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1724/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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