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MEDICINES

Made 25th October 2004

Laid before Parliament 29th October 2004

Coming into force 1st December 2004

The Secretary of State, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57(1) and (2) and 58(4) and (5) of the Medicines Act 1968^f1, and now vested in them, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Veterinary Products Committee, make the following Order:

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f1: 1968 c. 67; and see paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1), which has effect during suspension pursuant to section 1(8) of that Act: this paragraph provides that the functions of a Northern Ireland Minister who was in charge of a Northern Ireland Department immediately before the coming into force of section 1 of the Act may be discharged by that Department, subject, according to paragraph 4(1)(f) of the Schedule, to the direction and control of the Secretary of State. The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland were renamed the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by article 3(4) and (6) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/283 (N.I.1)).