# The Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981

S.I. 1981/1689 · made 24 November 1981

These Regulations amend the temporary and transitional provisions of the Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Regulations 1979. The latter regulations are amended so that the requirements which they impose will come into effect on 1st January 1985 in relation to persons transitionally exempted under the Medicines Act 1968 from holding a product licence or a manufacturer's licence, on 1st July 1985 in relation to wholesalers and on 1st January 1986 in relation to retailers.

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## Introductory text

MEDICINES
Made 24th November 1981
Laid before Parliament 3rd December 1981
Coming into Operation 24th December 1981
The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 85(1), 86(1), 91(2) and (3) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these regulations, hereby make the following regulations:—

## 1 Citation and commencement

These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 24th December 1981.

## 2 Amendment of regulation 7 of the Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Regulations 1979

(1) Regulation 7 of the Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Regulations 1979 (temporary and transitional provisions) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 7(1) for “1st January 1982” there shall be substituted “1st January 1985”.
(3) In regulation 7(2)(a) for “1st July 1982” there shall be substituted “1st July 1985”.
(4) In regulation 7(2)(b) for “1st January 1983” there shall be substituted “1st January 1986”.

## Signature

Norman Fowler
Secretary of State for Social Services
12th November 1981
Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
16th November 1981
George Younger
Secretary of State for Scotland
17th November 1981
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 24th day of November 1981.
L.S.
N. Dugdale
Permanent Secretary

## Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the temporary and transitional provisions of the Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Labelling) Regulations 1979. The latter regulations are amended so that the requirements which they impose will come into effect on 1st January 1985 in relation to persons transitionally exempted under the Medicines Act 1968 from holding a product licence or a manufacturer's licence, on 1st July 1985 in relation to wholesalers and on 1st January 1986 in relation to retailers.

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