Medicines (Labelling) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1977
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1977/2168 |
| Year | 1977 |
1977 No. 2168
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Labelling) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1977
Made 20th December 1977
Laid before Parliament 5th January 1978
Coming into Operation 1st February 1978
The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and in Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health and with agriculture 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), 85(4) and 91(2) and (3) 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 the following regulations, hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation and interpretation
1.23
Amendment of regulation 14D of the principal regulations
2. Regulation 14D of the principal regulations shall be amended as follows—
(1) The existing paragraph shall be numbered paragraph ;
(2) The following paragraphs shall be inserted after paragraph (1)—
“2 Subject to the following provisions of these regulations, where a medicinal product (not being a dispensed medicinal product) which is a veterinary drug specified in Schedules 1, 2 or 3 to the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) Order 19774is sold by retail or supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale or is offered or exposed for sale by retail, every container and every package immediately enclosing a container of such product—
(a) shall be labelled to show—
(i) where the veterinary drug is one which is specified in Schedule 1 or 2 to the above order, the letters “PML”;
(ii) where the veterinary drug is one which is specified in Schedule 3 to the above order, the letters “POM”;
such letters to be in capitals within a rectangle within which there shall be no other matter of any kind,
(b) shall, where the veterinary drug is described in paragraph 6 or 7 of Schedule 6 to these regulations, be labelled to show the words and particulars set out in such paragraph or paragraphs as the case may be,
(c) shall be labelled in accordance with the provisions of regulation 14A of...
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