Statutory Instruments
MEDICINES
Made
16th March 2005
Laid before Parliament
17th March 2005
Coming into force
7th April 2005
As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State, and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 53(4), 61, 66(1) and 129(1) and (5) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) or, as the case may be, the powers conferred by those provisions 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, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after taking into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines Commission pursuant to section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:—
1968 c. 67; the expression “the appropriate Ministers” and the expression “the Ministers”, which are relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations, are defined in section 1 of that Act as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and by article 5(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/794.
In the case of the Secretary of State, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, articles 2(1) of, and paragraph 1 of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and articles 3(1)(c) and (7) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/794; in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments, the powers vested in the Ministers in charge of those Departments by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) may now be exercised by the Departments by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Departments were renamed by virtue of article 3(4) and (6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1).