Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1990

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1990/1124

1990 No. 1124

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made 21th May 1990

Laid before Parliament 24th May 1990

Coming into force 18th June 1990

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 upon them by sections 1(1), 53(4), 129(1) and (5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 19681and now vested in them2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf and after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Regulations pursuant to Section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and after taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to Section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 18th June 1990.

S-2 Amendment of Regulation 8

Amendment of Regulation 8

2. Regulation 8 of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 19803(pack size on retail sale or supply of certain medicinal products on a general sale list) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “paragraphs (2) and (3)” substitute “paragraphs (2), (2A) and (3)”; and

(b) after paragraph (2) insert the following paragraph—

S-2A

“2A Where tablets for human use containing Bisacodyl are sold by retail in the course of a business elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy or are so offered or exposed for sale by retail or so supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, they shall be presented for sale in a separate and individual container or package containing not more than 10 tablets.”.

Virginia Bottomley

Minister of State,

Department of Health

21st May 1990

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

15th May 1990

M. B. Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Seary of State, Scottish Office

16th May 1990

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

16th May 1990.

F. A. Elliott

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