{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-pharmacy-and-merchants-list-amendment-order-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-pharmacy-and-merchants-list-amendment-order-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3081",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (Amendment) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-pharmacy-and-merchants-list-amendment-order-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 7th December 1992\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1992\nComing into force 1st January 1993\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 57(1), (2) and (2A) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 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 the following Order in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act and with the consent of the Treasury in accordance with section 57(2A) of that Act, and the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to medicinal products and the common agricultural policy of the Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in section 57 is defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote); section 57(2A) was inserted by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), section 14."
    },
    {
      "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.1969/388, in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agricuiture 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": "S.I.1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3081/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."
}