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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1045",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 9th April 1998\nLaid before Parliament 15th April 1998\nComing into force 6th May 1998\nThe Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, 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 by sections 66(1), 67(6) and 129(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them, and the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and in Wales and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting jointly in exercise of powers conferred by section 108(4) and (7) of that Act and now vested in them and the Secretary of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland in exercise of powers conferred by section 108(7) (as having effect in relation to Scotland by virtue of section 109(2) of that Act) and section 109(3) of that Act and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Regulations in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in section 66 is defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/338, 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": "In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1968/1699."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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