Explanatory note

This Order further amends the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1983 (“the principal Order”) which specifies descriptions and classes of prescription only medicines (i.e. medicinal products which, subject to exemptions, may be sold or supplied by retail only in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner and which may be administered only by or in accordance with the directions of such a practitioner). Under the principal Order products are included in a class of such medicines by reason of the substances contained in them, subject to their being excluded in certain specified circumstances.

The amendments made by this Order are as follows:—

• an extension of the exclusion for products containing beclomethasone dipropionate (article 4(a));

• a new exclusion for products containing budesonide (article 4(b));

• the inclusion of products containing substances mentioned in article 5.