The Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981

Statutory Instruments

1981 No. 1689

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981

Made

24th November 1981

Laid before Parliament

3rd December 1981

Coming into Operation

24th December 1981

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 sections 85(1), 86(1), 91(2) and (3) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(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, hereby make the following regulations:—

(1)

as applied by the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/968).

(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 (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).