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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-standard-provisions-for-licences-and-certificates-amendment-regulations-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1678",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Standard Provisions for Licences and Certificates) Amendment Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-standard-provisions-for-licences-and-certificates-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 30 June 2004\nLaid before Parliament 7 July 2004\nComing into force 30 July 2004\nThe Secretary of State, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 47(1) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968 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, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, pursuant to 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 expression “the Ministers”, which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations, is defined in section 1(1) of that Act as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, by article 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and by article 5(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I 2002/794."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State, by virtue of articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and articles 3(1)(c) and (7) of, and paragraph 15 to Schedule 1 to S.I.2002/794; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, by virtue of the powers vested in the Ministers in charge of those Departments by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47), which may now be exercised by the Departments by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Departments were renamed by virtue of article 3(4) and (6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1)."
    }
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  "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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