Therapeutic Substances (Prevention of Misuse) Act 1953
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1953 c. 32 |
Therapeutic Substances (Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1953
(1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 32
An Act to make further provision as to the substances other than penicillin to which the Penicillin Act, 1947, may be applied by regulations and to provide for relaxing in certain cases the restrictions imposed by that Act.
[14th July 1953]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Substances to which Penicillin Act, 1947, applies.
(1) For section two of the Penicillin Act, 1947 (which limits the application of that Act to penicillin and other anti-microbial organic substances produced by living organisms and substances having chemical properties identical with or similar to anti-microbial organic substances so produced), the following section shall be substituted:—
2.
(1) The substances to which this Act applies are penicillin and such other therapeutic substances as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister of Health, the Secretary of State and the Minister of Health and Local Government for Northern Ireland, jointly, after consultation with the Medical Research Council, being substances appearing to those Ministers to be capable of causing danger to the health of the community if used without proper safeguards.
(2) The power of making regulations under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and any such instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament’.
(2) The Streptomycin Regulations, 1948, and the Aureomycin and Chloramphenicol Regulations, 1951 (which were made under the said section two), shall continue in force and shall have effect as if they had been made under the section substituted by this section for the said section two.
2 Power to relax restrictions imposed by Penicillin Act, 1947.
(1) Subsection (1) of section one of the Penicillin Act, 1947 (which prohibits the sale or supply of any substance to which that Act applies, and of any preparation of which such a substance is an ingredient or part, except by the persons and in the circumstances specified in that subsection), shall not apply...
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