EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Regulations amend the Medicines (Renewal Applications for Licences and Certificates) Regulations 1974 by providing that regulation 4 of the regulations is to have effect and not regulations 5 and 6 in respect of applications for the first renewal of product licences of right made between 1st March and 30th June 1977 or such later date as the licensing authority allows. The requirements of regulation 4 are less extensive than those of regulations 5 and 6.