Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1985
Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 1558
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1985
Made 9th October 1985
Laid before Parliament 10th October 1985
Coming into Operation 31th October 1985
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 85(1), 91(3) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them1and 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 these regulations pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation, interpretation and commencement
1.2
Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations
2.—(1) At the beginning of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations (standard particulars required in the labelling of containers and packages), there shall be inserted the following words—
“Subject to the provisions of paragraph 7A below,”.
(2) Immediately after paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations there shall be added the following paragraph—
“7A Where a medicinal product is for use by being administered to one or more human beings, the expiry date in plain language.”.
Temporary and transitional provision
3. These regulations shall not have effect until 1st January 1990 in relation to a medicinal product in respect of which an application for a product licence under Part II of the Medicines Act 1968 has been granted by the licensing authority provided that such application was received by that authority prior to the coming into operation of these regulations.
R.W. Whitney
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Security
2nd October 1985
Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
3rd October 1985
George Younger
Secretary of State for Scotland
7th October 1985
Michael Jopling
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