# OnCo record medicines-medical-devices-act-2021 (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/terms/medicines-medical-devices-act-2021/>
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  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "medicines-medical-devices-act-2021" ;
  schema:name "Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Medicines and Medical Devices Act"@en, "MMD Act 2021"@en, "Human Medicines Regulations 2012"@en, "Medicines Act 1968"@en, "Commissioner for Patient Safety"@en ;
  schema:description "The 2021 UK law, passed after Brexit, that gives ministers power to rewrite the rules for licensing medicines, running trials and regulating devices without new primary legislation, and that created a patient safety commissioner."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/medicines-medical-devices-act-2021/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/3> ;
  onco:tag "law", "uk" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/ilap/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/regulatory-agencies/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/uk-data-protection-act/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/eu-regulation-726-2004/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/project-orbis/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/eu-clinical-trials-regulation/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/mhra/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-regulatory-fragmentation/> .