Contracting Out (Functions relating to Broadcast Advertising) and Specification of Relevant Functions Order 2004

Contracting out functions relating to advertising in the Medicines (Monitoring of Advertising) Regulations 1994

7.—(1) Any function relating to medicines advertising in the 1994 Regulations may be exercised by, or by employees of, such persons (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by OFCOM—

(a) either wholly or to such extent as may be specified in the authorisation;

(b) either generally or in such cases as may be so specified; and

(c) either unconditionally or subject to the fulfilment of such conditions as may be so specified.

(2) In this article, a “function relating to medicines advertising” means a function conferred on OFCOM by or under the 1994 Regulations in connection with the following provisions of those Regulations—

(a) regulation 9(1) (consideration of complaints about breaches of regulation 9 of the Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994(1));

(b) regulation 11(1) (directions for preventing the publication or further publication of an advertisement); or

(c) regulation 11(4) (giving and communicating reasons for the decision).

(1)

S.I. 1994/1932. Regulation 9 was amended by S.I. 1994/3144.