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PART 2OTHER LEGISLATION

Amendment of the Medicines Act 1968

13.  In the Medicines Act 1968(1)—

(a)in section 69(1ZA)(2) (general provisions), at the end insert—

or a person registered in the register of visiting pharmaceutical chemists from a relevant European State maintained under Article 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976(3).;

(b)in section 71(4) (bodies corporate), at the end of subsection (3)(5) insert—

or a person registered in the register of visiting pharmaceutical chemists from a relevant European State maintained under Article 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.;

(c)in section 132 (general interpretation provisions), in subsection (1), in the definition of “pharmacist”(6) , after “Northern Ireland”, where it appears for the second time, insert—

or the register of visiting pharmaceutical chemists from a relevant European State.

Amendment of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004

14.  In the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004(7), in regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “pharmacist”, after “Northern Ireland”, where it appears for the second time, insert “, or the register of visiting pharmaceutical chemists from a relevant European State,”.

Amendment of the Health Act 2006

15.  In the Health Act 2006(8), in section 28(1), in the substituted section 71 of the Medicines Act 1968, in subsection (7)(9), at the end insert “or a person registered in the register of visiting pharmaceutical chemists from a relevant European State maintained under Article 9 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.”.

(2)

Section 69 was amended by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c.50), Schedule 1, Part 12, and by S.I. 1976/1213 and 2007/289. Sub-section (1ZA) was inserted by SI 2007/3101

(4)

Section 71 was amended by S.I. 2007/289 (c.28) and is to be substituted by section 28 of the Health Act 2006 on a date to be appointed

(5)

Subsection (3) was inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 (regulation 98)

(6)

The definition of “pharmacist” was amended by S.I. 1976/1213 and 2007/289

(7)

S.I. 2004/1031 [amdmts]

(9)

Subsection (7) was inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 (regulation 103)