{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-medicinal-products-applications-for-product-licences-amendment-regulations-1994/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-medicinal-products-applications-for-product-licences-amendment-regulations-1994/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2157",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Veterinary Medicinal Products) (Applications for Product Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-medicinal-products-applications-for-product-licences-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 10th August 1994\nLaid before Parliament 18th August 1994\nComing into force 8th September 1994\nThe Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and 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 18 and 129(1) and (4) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them, 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, 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), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67: see the definition of “prescribed” in section 132(1); “the Ministers” referred to in section 129(1) is defined in section 1 (see the following footnote)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388, 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": "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/1994/2157/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."
}