The Medicines (Fees Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use) Amendment Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 210

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Fees Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made

8th February 1990

Laid before Parliament

13th February 1990

Coming into force

5th March 1990

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) of the Medicines Act 1971,(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations(3), hereby make the following Regulations:—

(1)

1971 c. 69, as amended by section 21 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49); by virtue of section 1(3) of the 1971 Act expressions in that section have the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67), as amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388). The expression “the Ministers” is defined in section 1(1) of the 1968 Act as so amended.

(2)

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; 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); in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments 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).

(3)

See section 129(6) of the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67), as extended to include regulations made under the Medicines Act 1971 by section 1(3)(b) of that latter Act.