Introductory text

MEDICINES

Made 23rd March 2006

Laid before Parliament 3rd April 2006

Coming into force 1st May 2006

The Secretary of State for Health and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, make the following Regulations in the exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 66(1), 87(1), 91(2) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968^f1, or as the case may be, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in them^f2.

In accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, they have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations. In accordance with section 129(7) of that Act, they have consulted and taken into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines^f3.

In so far as these Regulations are not made under the Medicines Act 1968, the Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f4. The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act in relation to medicinal products^f5.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1968 c. 67. The expression “the appropriate Ministers” and the expression “the Health Ministers”, which are relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations, are defined in section 1 of that Act as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and by article 5(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/794.
f2: In the case of the Secretary of State for Health, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, by virtue of the powers vested in the Ministers in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47), which may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Department was renamed by virtue of Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1.).
f3: See paragraph 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 to S.I. 2005/2754.
f4: 1972 c. 68.
f5: S.I. 1972/181.