Introductory text
MEDICINES
Made 8th December 1989
Laid before Parliament 11th December 1989
Coming into force 1st January 1990
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40 and 129(4) and (5) of the Medicines Act 1968f1 and now vested in them f2, 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 the following Regulations in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act and with the consent of the Treasury in accordance with section 40(7) of that Act, and the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being Ministers designated f3 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f4 in relation to medicinal products and the common agricultural policy of the Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations:
Annotations
Footnotes
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1968 c. 67; section 40 was substituted by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), section 13(1); “the Agriculture Ministers” referrred to in section 40 is defined in section 1(1)(b) of 1968, (c.67), (see also the following footnote).
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In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272 and in the case of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b).
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S.I. 1972/1811.
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