UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
1976 No. 968
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976
Made 21th June 1976
Coming into Operation 12th July 1976
The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of their powers under section 104(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in themand 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, a draft of which has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:—
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Citation, commencement and interpretationCitation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This order may be cited as the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976 and shall come into operation on 12th July 1976.
(2) In this order unless the context otherwise requires “” means
(3) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this order to any provision of any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that provision as amended or extended by any enactment or instrument and as including a reference to any provision which may re-enact or replace it.
(4) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the purposes of the interpretation of this order as they apply for the purposes of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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2. For the purposes of section 104(1) of the Act, the articles or substances described in Schedule 1 to this order are hereby specified as being articles or substances appearing to the Health Ministers to be articles or substances which are not medicinal products but are manufactured, sold, supplied, imported or exported for use wholly or partly for a medicinal purpose and it is hereby directed that, subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to this order, the provisions of the Act set out in Part I of the said Schedule 2 shall have effect in relation to such articles or substances as those provisions have effect in relation to medicinal products.
David Ennals
Secretary of State for Social Services
14th June 1976
John Morris
Secretary of State for Wales
14th June 1976
Bruce Millan
Secretary of State for Scotland
16th June 1976
J.H. Copeland
Deputy Permanent Secretary
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2
SCHEDULE 1
1. Any thin curved shell of glass, plastic or other hard or soft material intended for use by being applied to the human eyeball as a contact lens or any blank from which a contact lens is to be prepared.
2. Any substance for use in cleaning, disinfecting, irrigating, lubricating, wetting or storing any contact lens described in paragraph 1 of this Schedule or blank from which the contact lens is to be prepared or any fluid in which such lens or blank is soaked or rinsed or any fluid used as a barrier between such lens or blank and the human eyeball or any other substance used in connection with the use of such lens or blank.
3. Any instrument, apparatus or appliance for use by being inserted in the uterus of a human being for the purpose of contraception.