PART 1Introduction

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and subject to paragraph (2) shall come into force on 20th August 2013.

(2) Regulation 28 shall come into force one year after the date of publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the implementing acts referred to in Article 85c(3) (provisions as to the sale at a distance of medicinal products) of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use(1).

(3) Regulation 31 shall come into force immediately after regulations 32 to 35.

(1)

OJ No L 311, 28.11.2001, p67. Article 85c was inserted into Directive 2001/83/EC by Article 1(2) of Directive 2011/62/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 174, 1.7.2011, p74).