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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacy-and-general-saleexemption-amendment-order-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacy-and-general-saleexemption-amendment-order-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) (Amendment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacy-and-general-saleexemption-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 23rd May 1997\nLaid before Parliament 9th June 1997\nComing into force 30th June 1997\nThe Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 57(1) and (2), and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 (“the Act”), and now vested in them, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Order in accordance with section 129(6) of the Act, and after taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission in accordance with section 129(7) of the Act, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in section 57(1) are defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote). Sections 57 and 129 were applied in relation to the homoeopathic veterinary medicinal products with which the amendments effected by this Order are concerned by regulation 34(1) of, and Schedule 5 to, S.I. 1997/322."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the S ecretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1969/388, in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272, and, in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments, by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "As regards the application of section 129 to homoeopathic veterinary medicinal products, see footnote (a) above."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "As regards the application of section 129 to homoeopathic veterinary medicinal products, see footnote (a) above."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1350/introduction",
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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."
}