Explanatory note

This Order appoints the 1st February 1978 as the appointed day for the purposes of section 52 of the Medicines Act 1968. Section 52 provides that on or after the appointed day medicinal products not on a general sale list shall only be sold or supplied on premises which are a registered pharmacy and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist. Section 53 provides that on or after the appointed day medicinal products on a general sale list may only be sold or supplied elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy if the conditions specified in that section are fulfilled and section 54 provides that on or after the appointed day medicinal products may only be sold by means of an automatic machine if they are medicinal products in the automatic machines section of a general sale list. Medicinal products on the general sale list are specified in the Medicines (General Sale List) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/2129).