Medicines (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1980

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1980/7
Year1980

1980 No. 7

MEDICINES

The Medicines (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1980

7thJanuary 1980

31stJanuary 1980

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland, 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 powers conferred by sections 51 and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968(a) and now vested in them (b) 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, and after taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission, hereby make the following order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This order, which may be cited as the Medicines (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1980, amends the Medicines (General Sale List) Order 1977(c) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal order") and shall come into operation on 31st January 1980.

(2) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to adding an entry to a column in a Schedule to, or in a Table in a Schedule to, the principal order shall be construed as a reference to inserting that entry at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order of the entries in column 1 of that Schedule or, as the case may be, that Table.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal order

2. Schedule 1 to the principal order (medicinal products for human use on general sale) is amended by adding to column 1 the entries specified in Schedule 1 to this order.

(a) 1968 c. 67.

(b) 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) and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 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).

(c) S.I. 1977/2129, amended by S.I. 1979/315.

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