Medicines (Medicines Act 1968 Amendment) Regulations 1977
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1977/1050 |
| Year | 1977 |
1977 No. 1050
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Medicines Act 1968 Amendment) Regulations 1977
Made 17th June 1977
Laid before Parliament 24th June 1977
Coming into Operation 15th July 1977
The Secretary of State for Social Services, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food being Ministers designated1for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to medicinal products, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Medicines Act 1968 Amendment) Regulations 1977 and shall come into operation on 15th July 1977.
(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “” means
(3) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the purposes of the interpretation of these regulations as they apply for the purposes of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(4) These regulations shall not apply to Northern Ireland.
Amendment of section 7 of the Act
2.—(1) Section 7 of the Act (product licences) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In subsection (5) for the words there shall be substituted the words—
“(a)
“(a) is responsible for the composition of the product, or
(b)
(b) in the case of a proprietory medicinal product, is responsible for the placing of that product on the market, in the United Kingdom.”.
(3) At the end of the section there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“7 In this section—
(a) “” means
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a) “” does not include—
(i) vaccines, toxins or serums,
(ii) medicinal products based on human blood or blood constituents or radioactive isotopes,
(iii) homoeopathic medicinal products, or
(iv) veterinary drugs.”.
(4) This regulation shall come into force on 1st September 1977.
Amendment of section 8 of the Act
3.—(1) Section 8 of the Act (manufacture and wholesale dealing) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) For subsection (3) (wholesale dealer's licence) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“3 No person shall, in the course of a business carried on by him—
(a) sell, or offer for sale, any medicinal product by way of wholesale dealing, or
(b) distribute, otherwise than by way of sale, any proprietary medicinal product which has been imported, but was not consigned from a member State,
except in accordance with a licence granted for the purposes of this subsection (in this Act referred to as a “”).
4 In this section—
(a) “” means
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a) “” does not include—
(i) vaccines, toxins or serums,
(ii) medicinal products based on...
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