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MEDICINES

Made 7th July 1989

Laid before Parliament 11th July 1989

Coming into force

for all purposes except article 4 1st August 1989

for the purposes of article 4 1st February 1990

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 15(1) and (2) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968f1, and the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England, Scotland and Wales and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 62 and 129(4) of that Act, and now vested in themf2 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf and after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Order pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to sections 62(3) and 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:

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f1

1968 c. 67; by virtue of section 132(1) of the Act the expression “the appropriate Ministers” is to be construed in accordance with section 1(2) of that Act.

f2

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388); in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272); in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) ofSchedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).