# The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment Order 1994, 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 subject to section 58(2) of the Medicines Act 1968, that is to say, 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.
In article 4 of the principal Order (medicinal products that are not prescription only), paragraph (1P) provides that, in specified circumstances, a medicinal product shall not be a prescription only medicine by reason that it contains the substance sodium cromoglycate. Paragraph (1P) was inserted in the principal Order by article 3(2) of the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1993 (S. I.1993/3256) (“the 1993 Order”), in which the circumstance specified in sub-paragraph (a) is the indication of the product for treatment of acute seasonal allergic rhinitis. The circumstance should be the indication of the product for treatment of acute seasonal allergic conjunctivitis, and article 2 of this Order corrects that error.
This Order is being distributed free of charge to all known recipients of the 1993 Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/558/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-products-other-than-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1994/note
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