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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-applications-for-registration-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3259",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-applications-for-registration-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 24th November 2005\nLaid before Parliament 1st December 2005\nComing into force 1st January 2006\nThe Secretary of State for Health and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968 or, as the case may be, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in them.\nIn accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, they have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be affected by the Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67; the expression “the Health Ministers” is defined in section 1(1)(a) of that Act, as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1969/388, and by article 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; the word “prescribed” is defined in section 132(1) of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
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      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Health, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the powers vested in the Minister in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Department was renamed by virtue of article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.I.)."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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