The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1985

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This order, which may be cited as the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1985, amends the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 1984 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal order”) and shall come into operation on 1st November 1985.

(2) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to adding an entry to a column in a Table in a Schedule to the principal order shall be construed as a reference to inserting that entry at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order of the entries in column 1 of that Table.

Amendment of Article 1 of the principal order

2.  In Article 1(2)(a) of the principal order (interpretation) there are inserted—

(a) immediately after the definition of “the Act” the following definition:—

““aspirin equivalent” means, in relation to a quantity of aloxiprin, the quantity of aspirin which is equal in weight to 81.25 per cent of that quantity of aloxiprin;”

  

(b) immediately after the definition of “dosage unit” the following definition:—

““enema” means a preparation to be administered into the rectum as an aqueous or oily solution or suspension;”

  

(c) immediately after the definition of “food” the following definition:—

““irrigation” means to bathe by means of the application of a fluid in a continuous stream;”.

  

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal order

3.—(1) Schedule 1 to the principal order (which specifies the class of medicinal products, other than products the subject of a product licence of right, on general sale by virtue of Article 2(a) of the principal order) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.

(2) In Table A (internal or external use) there are added to column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2 and 3, those entries set out in columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively in Part I of Schedule 1 to this order.

(3) In Table B (external use only) there are added to column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2 and 3, those entries set out in columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively in Part II of Schedule 1 to this order.

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal order

4.—(1) Schedule 2 to the principal order (which specifies the class of medicinal products, the subject of a product licence of right, on general sale by virtue of Article 2(b) of the principal order) is amended in accordance with the following paragraph of this article.

(2) In Table A (internal or external use)—

(a) there is added to column 1 the entry “Alexitol Sodium”,

(b) there are deleted from column 1 the entries “Pennyroyal” and “Sodium Polyhydroxyaluminium Monocarbonate Hexitol Complex”, and

(c) there are deleted from column 1 the entry “Salicylamide” and from columns 3 and 4 the entries relating to Salicylamide.

Amendment of Schedule 3 to the principal order

5.  In Schedule 3 to the principal order (which specifies classes of medicinal products which are not on the general sale list) the word “or”, occurring in paragraph (c), is deleted and after paragraph (d) there are added the following paragraphs—

   

“(e) for use as enemas, or

   

(f) for use wholly or mainly for irrigation of wounds or of the bladder, vagina or rectum.”.

   

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

R.W. Whitney

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department of Health and Social Security

18th September 1985

Signed with the authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Wyn Roberts

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales

23rd September 1985

George Younger

Secretary of State for Scotland

3rd October 1985

In witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 22nd September 1985.

L.S.

Michael Jopling

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 12th day of September 1985.

L.S.

Maurice N. Hayes

Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 12th day of September 1985.

L.S.

W.H. Jack

Permanent Secretary