# The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
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 specified circumstances.
The amendments made by this Order are as follows—
amendments to the exclusions for certain products containing mebendazole or famotidine (article 2);
the inclusion of products containing mumps vaccine, trandolapril or various forms of the substance aristolochia (article 3);
the inclusion of products containing amyl nitrite subject to an exemption where it is sold or supplied as an antidote for cyanide poisoning (articles 3 and 5 and the Schedule);
the substitution of the British Approved Name lodoxamide trometamol for that in an existing entry (article 3);
amendments to the conditions under which medicines containing Mebeverine Hydrochlo ride or Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride may be sold or supplied otherwise than as prescription only medicines (article 3);
the exclusion of the products listed in article 4.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3193/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-no-2-order-1996/note
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