Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Special and Transitional Cases) Order 1971
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1971 No. 1450
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Special and Transitional Cases) Order 1971
Made 27th August 1971
Laid before Parliament 2nd September 1971
Coming into Operation 1st September 1971
The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and in Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland, the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of their powers under sections 15(1) and 23(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 (as having effect subject to the provisions of Article 2(2) of and Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 19691) 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, hereby make the following order:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemption from Licences) (Special and Transitional Cases) Order 1971 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1971.
(2) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“” means ;
“” ;
and other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.
(3) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in the order to any enactment or order shall be construed as a reference to that enactment or order as the case may be as amended or extended by any other enactment or order.
(4) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies for the purpose of the interpretation of this order as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Exemption from product licences for certain special manufactured products
2.—(1) The restrictions imposed by section 7 of the Act (restriction as to dealing with medicinal products) shall not apply to the sale or supply of any medicinal product if the conditions specified in paragraph (2) of this Article as to sale, supply and manufacture of that product are satisfied.
(2) The conditions referred to in the preceding paragraph are—
(i)
(i) that the medicinal product is sold or supplied,
(a) to a doctor or dentist for use by him in circumstances to which section 9(1) of the Act relates, or
(b) to a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner for use by him in circumstances to which section 9(2) of the Act relates, or
(c) for use in a registered pharmacy, a hospital or a health centre under the supervision of a pharmacist in circumstances to which section 10 of the Act (as modified by the Medicines (Retail Pharmacists—Exemptions from Licensing Requirements) Order 19712) relates, or
(d) to a person, in the course of whose business herbal remedies are sold, where that medicinal product, being a herbal remedy is to be sold or supplied in circumstances to which section 12(1)(b) of the Act relates, or
(e) to a person for administration to himself or to a member of his household, where that medicinal product is a product which may lawfully be sold by retail otherwise than in accordance with a practitioner's prescription or from premises other than a registered pharmacy within the meaning of the Act (as modified for the purposes of section 10 of the Act as aforesaid),
or, if sold or...
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