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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-safe-custody-regulations-1973/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1973/798",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-safe-custody-regulations-1973",
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  "number": "2",
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  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression—\n“the Ac6t” means the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971;\n“retail dealer” means a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business or a pharmacist engaged in supplying drugs to the public at a health centre within the meaning of the Medicines Act 1968.\n(2) In these Regulations any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment.\n(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2581",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications of Enactments) Order 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2154",
      "affecting_title": "The Misuse of Drugs and Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2154",
      "affecting_title": "The Misuse of Drugs and Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1249",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians) Order 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1249",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians) Order 2025"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/798/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:09:40.095242+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."
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