Introductory text
MEDICINES
Made 12th November 1991
Laid before Parliament 14th November 1991
Coming into force 6th December 1991
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 by sections 58(1) and (4), 59 and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968f1 and now vested in themf2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Order in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Veterinary Products Committee in accordance with sections 58(6) and 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Order.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
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1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in sections 58 and 59 is defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote).
- f2
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In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388, in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272 and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b).