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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-for-human-usefees-amendment-regulations-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Products for Human Use—Fees) Amendment Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-for-human-usefees-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 10th March 1994\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1994\nComing into force 1st April 1994\nThe Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland respectively, 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 powers conferred upon them by section 1(1) and (2) of the Medicines Act 1971 or, as the case may be, those conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 69; section 1(1) was amended by section 21 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49).By virtue of section 1(3) of the 1971 Act, expressions in that section have the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67), as amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I.1969/388) and specified provisions of that Act, including section 129(2), (3)(c), (5) and (6), have effect as if any reference to that Act in those provisions included a reference to section 1 of the 1971 Act.The expression “the Ministers” is defined in section 1(1) of the 1968 Act as so amended."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969; in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No.1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272); in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 129(6) of the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67) as extended to include regulations made under the Medicines Act 1971 by section 1(3)(b) of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/696/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."
}