EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order appoints 15th October 1985 as the day from which the licensing restrictions on marketing, manufacture and wholesale dealing imposed by sections 7 and 8 of the Medicines Act 1968 shall, subject to certain transitional exemptions contained in section 16 of that Act, apply to the substances gentamicin, neomycin and nystatin, in circumstances where those substances are not in themselves medicinal products but are used as ingredients in the manufacture of medicinal products. These and other provisions of the Act are applied to those substances, in specified circumstances, by the Medicines (Control of Substances for Manufacture) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1403).