1976 No. 74 (C.2)
MEDICINES

The Medicines Act 1968 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1976

Made
The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and in Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by section 136(3) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them1 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following order, hereby make the following order:—

1.

(1)

The 20th February 1976 shall be the day appointed for the coming into operation of section 135(2) (repeal of enactments) of the Medicines Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) for the purpose of—

(a)

section 1 of the Therapeutic Substances Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act of 1956”) to the extent specified in paragraph (2) of this Article, and

(b)

section 2 of the Act of 1956.

(2)

The repeal of section 1 of the Act of 1956 shall have effect in respect of—

(a)

the substances specified in paragraphs 2 and 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1956,

(b)

the substances specified in paragraphs 1 and 3 of that Schedule in so far as those substances are substances to which the restrictions imposed by sections 7(3) and 31(4) of the Act apply or, in the case of the said section 7(3), would apply but for any exemption from that subsection conferred under or by any provision of the Act, and

(c)

all the substances added to that Schedule by regulations made under section 5(1)(d) of the Act of 1956 except the following in so far as they are not substances to which the restrictions imposed by sections 7(3) and 31(4) of the Act apply or, in the case of the said section 7(3), would apply but for any exemption from that subsection conferred under or by any provision of the Act:—

(i)

preparations of the pituitary (posterior lobe) or the active principles thereof (whether obtained by fractionation of the gland or by synthesis) or of derivatives of those principles with the same specific biological action, which are intended for use by parenteral injection2,

(ii)

corticotrophin and preparations thereof3,

(iii)

heparin and preparations thereof intended for use by parenteral injection4,

(iv)

hyaluronidase and preparations thereof intended for use by parenteral injection5.

2.

This order may be cited as the Medicines Act 1968 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1976.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

D. A. L. Owen
Minister of State
Department of Health and Social Security
John Morris
Secretary of State for Wales
William Ross
Secretary of State for Scotland

In witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 16th January 1976.

Frederick Peart
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 21st day of January 1976.

N. Dugdale
Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 22nd day of January 1976.

J. A. Young
Permanent Secretary
EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into operation on 20th February 1976 certain parts of section 135(2) of the Medicines Act 1968 so as to repeal section 1 of the Therapeutic Substances Act 1956 to the extent specified and the whole of section 2.