Version Superseded: 01/10/2006
Point in time view as at 05/12/2005. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Medicines Act 1968, Section 6 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)For the purposes of this Part of this Act the authority responsible for the grant, renewal, variation, suspension and revocation of licences and certificates shall be a body of Ministers consisting of all the Ministers specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 1(1) of this Act.
(2)Any function conferred on the licensing authority by or under this Act may be performed by any one of those Ministers acting alone or by any two or more of them acting jointly.
(3)In accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, in this Act “the licensing authority” means any one or more of those Ministers, and, in the case of anything falling to be done by the licensing authority, means any one or more of those Ministers acting as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. II(ss. 6–50) extended with modifications by S.I. 1985/1403, art. 3(1)
C2S. 6 applied (with modifications) (3.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/605, reg. 2(1)(2),Sch.
S. 6 extended (with modifications) (14.2.1994) by S.I. 1994/105, reg. 19, Sch.4
C3S. 6 amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 1994/105 Sch. 4 (30.10.2005) by Medicines (Homoeopathic Medicinal Products for Human Use) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2753), regs. 1(1), 19(2)
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