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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-specified-articles-and-substances-order-1976/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/968",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-specified-articles-and-substances-order-1976",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order, made under section 104(1) of the Medicines Act 1968, extends the application of specified provisions of the Act to contact lenses, associated substances and intra-uterine contraceptive devices. The Order also modifies specified provisions of the Act in relation to those articles or substances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/968/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:13.659774+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."
}