Statutory Instruments
MEDICINES
Made
7th September 1995
Laid before Parliament
8th September 1995
Coming into force
29th September 1995
The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and 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, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) and (2) of the Medicines Act 1971(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all the 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 these Regulations(3), and the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being Ministers designated(4) for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(5) in relation to medicinal products and the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations:
1971 c. 69 as amended by section 21 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49); by the virtue of section 1(3) of the 1971 Act expressions in that section have the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67) as amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388). The expression “the Ministers” is defined in section 1(1) of the 1968 Act as so amended.
In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969; in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No.1) Order 1978(S.I. 1978/272); in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virture of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).
See section 129(6) of the Medicines Act 1968 as extended to include Regulations made under the Medicines Act 1971 by section 1(3)(b) of that latter Act.
S.I. 1972/1811.