1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Service Medicines (Consent to Voluntary Scheme) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.
2. For the purposes of section 33(2)(a) of the Health Act 1999, a manufacturer or supplier who wishes to consent to a voluntary scheme being treated as applying to him shall give his consent in the manner set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
3. A manufacturer or supplier who wishes to withdraw a consent given in accordance with regulation 2 of these Regulations shall withdraw his consent in the manner set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Frank Dobson
Secretary of State for Health
6th August 1999