{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-for-human-use-fees-regulations-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-39A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-for-human-use-fees-regulations-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-39A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/190",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Products for Human Use) (Fees) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-for-human-use-fees-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/39A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39A",
  "heading": "Variation of orphan marketing authorisations: small and medium companies",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), if an application to vary an orphan marketing authorisation is made by, or on behalf of, a small or a medium company within 12 months of the date of grant of the marketing authorisation, the fee payable for that variation application shall be waived.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to an application to authorise use of the medicinal product in a new therapeutic area which does not meet the orphan criteria listed in regulation 50G(2) of the Human Medicines Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 39A inserted (31.12.2020) by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 7(11) (with Sch. 1 para. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/190/schedule/2/paragraph/39A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:27:13.215121+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."
}