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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-amendment-order-1998/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/108",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-amendment-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 Order 1998 and shall come into force on 13th February 1998, except for article 2 and article 3(e)(ii) which shall come into force on 13th August 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."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/108/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:59.670273+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."
}