Statutory Instruments
MEDICINES
Made
28th March 1979
Laid before Parliament
28th March 1979
Coming into Operation
28th March 1980
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 by section 62 of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, it appearing to them to be necessary in the interests of safety to make the following Order, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Order, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines(2), and after taking into account the report of the Medicines Commission made under section 62(5) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:—
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).
S.I. 1970/1257.