{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-supply-to-addicts-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-supply-to-addicts-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2394",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Supply to Addicts) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-supply-to-addicts-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Misuse of Drugs (Supply to Addicts) Regulations 1997",
  "text": "In regulation 3—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(b) for “Secretary of State” substitute “appropriate authority”;\n(b) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) Any licence issued by the appropriate authority in pursuance of these Regulations may permit a doctor to administer, supply or prescribe a drug, or to authorise the administration or supply of a drug, only while at an address specified in that licence.”; and\n(c) in paragraph (2) after “issued to him” insert “by the appropriate authority”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Appropriate authority” is to be construed in accordance with section 10(2B) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 which is inserted by section 19(2) of the Scotland Act 2012."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2394/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:18:46.451435+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."
}