Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 1975

Regulation 2(3) of the Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 1975^f1 (child resistant containers for aspirin and paracetamol) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

For sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b)

reclosable containers which are opaque or dark-tinted, identical in all respects to containers which comply with the requirements of British Standard EN 28317 published by the British Standards Institution on 15 February 1993, or”.

For sub-paragraph (e) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(e)

reclosable containers which are opaque or dark-tinted, identical in all respects to containers which comply with the requirements of British Standard 6652 published on 30 September 1985 as amended and re-published on 30 June 1989, and which—

(i)

have been certified by the British Standards Institution as complying with those requirements, or

(ii)

are part of a series of containers in respect of which the licensing authority has been furnished with a report by the British Standards Institution to the effect that such containers comply with the requirements of British Standard 6652 as amended.”.