The Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) (Revocation) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 3120

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) (Revocation) Order 1994

Made

7th December 1994

Coming into force

1st January 1995

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland respectively, 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, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 4 and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) or, as the case may be, those conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having regard pursuant to section 4(1) of that Act to the recommendations made by the Medicines Commission under section 3(2) of that Act and after consulting such organisations as they consider appropriate pursuant to section 4(1) of that Act and such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order(3), hereby make the following Order—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) (Revocation) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st January 1995.

Revocations

2.  The Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) Order 1975(4) and the Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) Amendment Order 1979(5) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

2nd December 1994

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

6th December 1994

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, The Scottish Office

6th December 1994

Angela Browning

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

7th December 1994

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

6th December 1994.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

J. Murray

Permanent Secretary

7th December 1994.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) Order 1975 (which established the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) and the Medicines (Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials) Amendment Order 1979 (which amended it). This Order abolishes that Committee, the purposes of which were—

(a) to advise in relation to substances or articles (including instruments, apparatuses or appliances) for dental or surgical use to which any provision of the Medicines Act 1968 (“the Act”) applies,

(b) to advise in relation to substances and fluids for use with contact lenses or blanks, and

(c) to promote the collection and investigation of information about adverse reactions to enable the advice to be given.

In connection with the implementation of Council Directive 93/42/EEC (OJ L169, 12.7.93, p.1) concerning medical devices, most of the substances and articles referred to above will no longer be covered by provisions of the Act. In the case of those remaining so subject, the statutory functions of the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials under the Act fall to another committee established under section 4 or to the Medicines Commission (section 2).

(1)

1968 c. 67. The expression “the Ministers”, used in section 4(1), is defined in section 1(1) of that Act as amended by S.I. 1969/388, Schedule 1.

(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); 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); and 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.

(4)

S.I. 1975/1473.

(5)

S.I. 1979/1535.