Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1981/1791

1981 No. 1791

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981

9thDecember 1981

22ndDecember 1981

12thJanuary 1982

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) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(a) and now vested in them (b) and 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, hereby make the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1. These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 12th January 1982.

Amendment of the Medicines (Labelling) Regulations 1976

2.—(1) The Medicines (Labelling) Regulations 1976(c) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) To regulation 14A there is added, after paragraph (4), the following paragraph:—

"(5) Without prejudice to the operation of paragraph (1) of this regulation, every container and every package immediately enclosing a container of a medicinal product which is a product referred to in regulation 8 of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980(d) which is not presented for sale in the manner described in relation to that product in that regulation and which is not a dispensed medicinal product shall, where the product—

(a) is sold by retail, or

(b) is supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, or

(a) 1968 c.67.

(b) In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of Article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388), in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of Article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272) and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36), and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern...

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