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1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 and shall come into operation on 30th January 1981.
(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
“the Act” means
“controlled drug”
“effervescent”, in relation to a tablet, means
“health prescription” means
in England and Wales, either the National Health Service Act 1946 and the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 or the National Health Service Act 1977,
in Scotland, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and
in Northern Ireland, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;
“parenteral administration” means
“pharmacy medicine” means
is not a medicinal product on a general sale list, or
is a product referred to in regulation 8 and is not presented for sale in the manner described in relation to that product in that regulation;
“prescription only medicine” means
“the Prescription Only Order” means
“register” means
“registered ophthalmic optician” means
“repeatable prescription” means
“the Veterinary Drugs Exemption Order” means
(b)a reference to selling anything by way of wholesale dealing is to selling it to a person as being a person who buys it for one or more of the purposes specified in section 131(2), except that in sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 5(1) it does not include any such sale by the person who manufactured it, and a reference to supplying anything by way of wholesale dealing is to supplying it to a person as being a person who receives it for one or more of those purposes; and
(c)a reference to a numbered section is to the section of the Act which bears that number, a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in or Schedule to these regulations which bears that number and a reference in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph which bears that number in that regulation or Schedule.
Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/283, 1650.
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