The Medicines (Products for Animal Use—Fees) Regulations 1998

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), (2) and (3)(b) of the Medicines Act 19711 and now vested in them2 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 these Regulations3, and the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being Ministers designated4 for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19725 in relation to medicinal products and the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations: