{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1980/regulation-1", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1980/regulation-1.json", "legislation": "uksi/1980/1923", "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-sale-or-supply-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1980", "path": "regulation/1", "kind": "regulation", "number": "1", "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation", "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 and shall come into operation on 30th January 1981.\n(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—\n(a) “the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“controlled drug” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971;\n“effervescent”, in relation to a tablet, means containing not less than 75 per cent, by weight of the tablet, of ingredients included wholly or mainly for the purpose of releasing carbon dioxide when the tablet is dissolved or dispersed in water;\n“health prescription” means a prescription issued by a doctor or dentist under or by virtue of—\n(i) in England and Wales, either the National Health Service Act 1946 and the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 or the National Health Service Act 1977,\n(ii) in Scotland, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and\n(iii) in Northern Ireland, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;\n“parenteral administration” means administration by breach of the skin or mucous membrane;\n“pharmacy medicine” means a medicinal product which is not a prescription only medicine and which either—\n(i) is not a medicinal product on a general sale list, or\n(ii) is a product referred to in regulation 8 and is not presented for sale in the manner described in relation to that product in that regulation;\n“prescription only medicine” means a medicinal product of a description or falling within a class specified in Article 3 of the Prescription Only Order;\n“the Prescription Only Order” means the Medicines (Prescription Only) Order 1980;\n“register” means a bound book and does not include any form of loose leaf register or card index;\n“registered ophthalmic optician” means a person who is registered in either of the registers of ophthalmic opticians established and maintained under section 2(a) of the Opticians Act 1958;\n“repeatable prescription” means a prescription which contains a direction that it may be dispensed more than once; and\n“the Veterinary Drugs Exemption Order” means the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) Order 1979;\n(b) a reference to selling anything by way of wholesale dealing is to selling it to a person as being a person who buys it for one or more of the purposes specified in section 131(2), except that in sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 5(1) it does not include any such sale by the person who manufactured it, and a reference to supplying anything by way of wholesale dealing is to supplying it to a person as being a person who receives it for one or more of those purposes; and\n(c) a reference to a numbered section is to the section of the Act which bears that number, a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in or Schedule to these regulations which bears that number and a reference in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph which bears that number in that regulation or Schedule.", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/283, 1650." } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "am", "affecting": "uksi/2009/3063", "affecting_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2009" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "am", "affecting": "uksi/2005/1520", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "rev in pt", "affecting": "uksi/2005/764", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "am", "affecting": "uksi/2005/764", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "words revoked", "affecting": "uksi/2005/2745", "affecting_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2010/1881", "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2010/1881", "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2010/1881", "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771", "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004" }, { "type": "am", "affecting": "uksi/2007/2179", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2007" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2007/289", "affecting_title": "The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2007/3101", "affecting_title": "The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007" }, { "type": "revoked", "affecting": "uksi/1997/1831", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1997" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1998/1045", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1998" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2012/1479", "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/2000/1918", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2010/231", "affecting_title": "The Pharmacy Order 2010" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2010/1881", "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010" }, { "type": "rev in pt", "affecting": "uksi/2005/1520", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771", "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771", "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771", "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771", "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004" }, { "type": "word omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/1771", 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Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/914", "affecting_title": "The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 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"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }