Statutory Instruments
medicines
Made
19th October 2006
Laid before Parliament
26th October 2006
Coming into force
17th November 2006
The Secretary of State and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, make the following Order in the exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 57(1) and (2), 58(4) and (5) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968(1), or, in the case of the Department, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in it(2).
In accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, they have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order. In accordance with sections 58(6) and 129(7) of that Act, they have consulted and taken into account the advice of the Commission on Human Medicines(3).
1968 c.67. The expression “the Ministers”, which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of this Order, is defined in section 1 of the Act as amended by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1969/388, paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to S.I. 1999/3142 and paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407; section 57(1) of that Act was amended by paragraph 28(1) of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407; section 58 of that Act was amended by section 1 of the Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992 (c. 28), by section 63 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15), by paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to S.I. 2002/253, by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2005/1094 and by paragraph 29 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407.
By virtue of the powers vested in the Ministers in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c.47), which may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c.1); the Department was renamed by virtue of Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1.).
The expression “the appropriate committee”, referred to in section 58(6) of the Act, is defined in section 4(6) of the Act, as amended by S.I. 2005/1094.