The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 1984 (“the principal Order”) which specifies classes of medicinal products which can with reasonable safety be sold or supplied otherwise than by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (the general sale list).

Article 2 inserts a definition of “effervescent” in the principal Order.

Article 3 amends Schedule 1 to the principal Order (medicinal products, other than products the subject of a product licence of right, on general sale). Article 3(2) inserts in Table A (internal or external use) of that Schedule the entries specified in Schedule 1 to this Order and amends other entries in Table A as described in paragraph (2)(d) to (l).

Article 3(3) inserts in Table B (external use only) of Schedule 1 to the principal Order the entries specified in Schedule 2 to this Order, omits from Table B the entries in respect of Hamamelis, Siberian Fir Oil, Lignocaine and Lignocaine Hydrochloride (which now appear, amended, in Table A of that Schedule) and amends the entry in respect of Povidone-Iodine.