Explanatory note

This Order amends the Medicines (Importation of Medicinal Products for Re-exportation) Order 1971 by adding to the cases to which the exemption (conferred by the Order of 1971) from the requirement to hold a product licence applies.

The cases so added are cases where the medicinal products, articles and substances referred to in Part I of the Schedule to the Order of 1971, being imported for re-export in the form in which they were imported, are assembled in a way different from the way in which they were assembled on being imported. The exemption applies only if certain specified conditions are satisfied. Part I of the Schedule is amended so as to include in the exemption articles and substances to which sections 7(3) and 13(2) and (3) of the Medicines Act 1968 have been or will be applied by orders made under sections 104 or 105 of that Act.