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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-amendment-order-2002/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/549",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-only-medicines-human-use-amendment-order-2002",
  "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 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.\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, 1178 and 2081, 1999/1044 and 3463, 2000/1917, 2899 and 3231, and 2001/2777, 2889 and 3942."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/549/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:13:02.991776+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."
}