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MEDICINES

Made 21st May 1990

Laid before Parliament 24th May 1990

Coming into force 18th June 1990

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 1(1), 53(4), 129(1) and (5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968^f1 and now vested in them^f2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf and after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Regulations pursuant to Section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and after taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to Section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

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f1: 1968 c. 67; section 132(1) is cited for the definition of “prescribed”; and section 1(1) for the definition of “the Ministers”.
f2: In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388); in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272); in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, andSchedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).