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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-amendment-no-3-order-1998/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2081",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 3) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-amendment-no-3-order-1998",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment (No. 3) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 16th September 1998.\n(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830, amended by S.I. 1997/2044, 1998/108 and 1998/1178."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2081/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:27.921030+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."
}