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Section 135(1)

SCHEDULE 5U.K. Amendments of Enactments of Parliament of United Kingdom.

The Venereal Disease Act 1917 (c. 21). U.K.

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F1Sch. 5 para. 1 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 17 Group 7

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C1The text of Sch. 5 paras. 1, 10, 13, 16, 7, Schs. 6, 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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F2Sch. 5 paras. 2–9 repealed by Poisons Act 1972 (c. 66), Sch. 2

The Cancer Act 1939 (c. 13.)U.K.

10In section 4, in subsection (4)(a)(v), for the words “authorised sellers of poisons" there shall be substituted the words “persons lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business in accordance with section 69 of the Medicines Act 1968".

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C2The text of Sch. 5 paras. 1, 10, 13, 16, 7, Schs. 6, 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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F5Sch. 5 para. 13 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1Pt. XII

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F6Sch. 5 paras. 14, 15 repealed by Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c. 38), Sch. 6

The Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (c. 29). U.K.

16In section 2, in subsection 5, after the word “section" there shall be inserted “(a)", and at the end of the subsection there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(b) where by virtue of any provision made under Part V of the Medicines Act 1968 (or made under any provisions of the said Part V as applied by an order made under section 104 or section 105 of that Act) anything which, in accordance with this Act, constitutes the application of a trade description to goods is subject to any requirements or restrictions imposed by that provision, any particular description specified in that provision, when applied to goods in circumstances to which those requirements or restrictions are applicable, shall be deemed not to be a trade description.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3The text of Sch. 5 paras. 1, 10, 13, 16, 7, Schs. 6, 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

[F717U.K.In section 22, in subsection (2), after the words “the Food and Drugs Act (Northern Ireland) 1958 M1" there shall be inserted the words “or the Medicines Act 1968" ; in paragraph (b) the word “and", where it occurs at the end of that pargraph, shall be omitted ; and at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the words and

(d)in relation to the said Act of 1968, so much of Schedule 3 to that Act as is applicable to the circumstances in which the sample was procured,

at the end of the subsection there shall be inserted the words “or paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 to the said Act of 1968".]

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F7Sch. 5 para. 17 repealed (E.W.S.) by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 54, 59(4), Sch. 5

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