The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1932

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994

Made

18th July 1994

Laid before Parliament

19th July 1994

Coming into force

9th August 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), being designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act in relation to medicinal products(2), and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly in exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 61, 66(1)(i) and (j), 95(1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(3), or, as the case may be, those conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them(4), and those Ministers together with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 85(1), 86(1) and 91(2) of the Medicines Act 1968(5), or, as the case may be, those conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them(6), and in each case in exercise of all other powers so enabling them, after consulting in so far as is required such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations(7), hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1972 c. 68.

(2)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(3)

1968 c. 67. The expression “the appropriate Ministers”, used in sections 61, 66 and 95, is defined in section 1(2)(a) of that Act.

(4)

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388) and in the case of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).

(5)

The expression “the appropriate Ministers”, used in sections 85 and 86, is defined in section 1(2)(b) of that Act.

(6)

In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272) and in the case of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).

(7)

See section 129(6) of the Act.