The Medicines (Breathing Gases) Order 1977

Specification of substances not to be treated as medicinal products

2.—(1) The substances described in the following paragraph are hereby specified for the purposes of section 130(5)(c) of the Act.

(2) The substances referred to in the preceding paragraph are substances whether compressed or not being oxygen, air or any mixture of both or of either or both with any inert gas or gases or with nitrogen and being manufactured, sold, supplied, imported or exported solely for use by being administered to one or more human beings, including such administration by a human being to himself, subjected or likely to be subjected to conditions in which respiration is or is likely to be adversely affected whether by reason of abnormal atmospheric pressure, lack or contamination of air or otherwise, such administration not being for the purpose of treatment or diagnosis of any disease caused or aggravated by such conditions.