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Part II Licences and Certificates Relating to Medicinal Products
Part III Further Provisions relating to Dealings with Medicinal Products
58A. Requirement to specify certain products for human use as prescription-only products.
58B. Requirement to specify certain products for veterinary use as prescription-only products.
59. Special provisions in relation to new medicinal products.
60. Restricted sale, supply and administration of certain medicinal products.
61. Special restrictions on persons to be supplied with medicinal products.
62. Prohibition of sale or supply, or importation, of medicinal products of specified description, or of animal feeding stuffs incorporating such products.
65. Compliance with standards specified in monographs in certain publications.
66. Further powers to regulate dealings with medicinal products.
Part V Containers, Packages and Identification of Medicinal Products
Part VIII Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions
105. Application of Act to certain other substances which are not medicinal products.
107. Validity of decisions and proceedings relating thereto.
112. Power to inspect, take samples and seize goods and documents.
113. Application of sampling procedure to substance or article seized under s. 112.
114. Supplementary provisions as to rights of entry and related rights.
116. Liability to forfeiture under Customs and Excise Act 1952.
117. Special enforcement and sampling provisions relating to animal feeding stuffs.
120. Compensation for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments.
123. Offences in relation to warranties and certificates of analysis.
130. Meaning of “medicinal product" and related expressions.
131. Meaning of “wholesale dealing", “retail sale" and related expressions.
SCHEDULES
Provisions Relating to Medicines Commission and Committees
1.The Ministers may make provision by regulations with respect to...
2.The Ministers shall provide the Commission and each committee established...
3.The validity of any proceedings of the Commission or of...
4.The Commission and any such committee or sub-committee shall have...
6.The Ministers shall defray any expenses incurred with their approval...
7.Neither the Commission nor any such committee or sub-committee shall...
Suspension, Revocation or Variation of Licence
Notification of proposals to holder of licence in other cases
10.The following provisions of this Schedule shall have effect where...
11.In the circumstances specified in paragraph 10 of this Schedule,...
12.If the licence is a product licence, the licensing authority...
13.If, after the suspension has taken effect, it appears to...
14.Where, in the circumstances specified in paragraph 13 of this...
15.The provisions of section 27(7) of this Act shall, with...
2.The sampling officer shall forthwith divide the sample into three...
3.If the sample was purchased by the sampling officer, otherwise...
4.If the sampling officer obtained the sample from an automatic...
11.Where a sample consists of substances or articles enclosed in...
13.If after reasonable inquiry the sampling officer is unable to...
Analysis or other examination of sample
15.If the sampling officer decides to submit the sample for...
16.Where the relevant enforcement authority is a Minister or the...
17.Any such arrangements as are mentioned in paragraph 15(b) or...
18.(1) Subject to the following sub-paragraph, the person to whom...
19.(1) A public analyst who has analysed a sample submitted...
20.(1) Any person to whom, in accordance with paragraphs 2...
Provisions relating to Northern Ireland
1.(1) The Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern...
2.Where the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland is of...
4.Notwithstanding anything contained in section 28(3) or section 39(2) of...
6.The appropriate Northern Ireland Minister or Ministers may in relation...
9.In this Schedule “the appropriate Northern Ireland Minister or Ministers”—...
11.The Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979, except article 5(2)(a)...
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