Introductory text

MEDICINES

Made 6th September 2003

Laid before Parliament 10th September 2003

Coming into force 1st October 2003

As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 87(1), 88(1) and (2), 91(2) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968^f1, or, as the case may be, the powers conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them^f2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, and after taking into account, pursuant to section 129(7) of that Act, the advice of the Medicines Commission, hereby make the following Regulations:—

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f1: 1968 c. 67; the expression “the appropriate Ministers” in sections 87(1) and 88(1) of that Act, which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations, is defined in section 1(2) of that Act.
f2: In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, by virtue of articles 2(1) and 5 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the powers vested in the Minister 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) 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).