Medicines (Labelling) and (Leaflets for Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Regulations 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2008/1985 |
1985 No. 2008
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Labelling) and (Leaflets for Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Regulations 198518thDecember 1985
20thDecember 1985
21stDecember 1985
The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, 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(2), 86(1) and 91(3) 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 in accordance with section 129(6) of the said Act, hereby make the following regulations:—
Title and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Labelling) and (Leaflets for Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 21st December 1985.
Amendment of regulations
2.—(1) For paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Medicines (Labelling) Regulations 1976 (standard particulars required in the labelling of containers and packages) (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
"5. Where the medicinal product is for use by being administered to animals, any restrictions on the purposes for which the medicinal product may be used in the provisions of any product licence relating to the medicinal product.
5A. Where the product licence relating to a veterinary drug which is a proprietary medicinal product or a ready-made veterinary drug specifies a withdrawal period before an animal which has been treated with such drug is slaughtered for the production of food and before products derived from such an animal are used as food, the withdrawal period so specified."
(a) 1968 c.67.
(b) In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388, in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of 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 Ireland Act 1974 (c.28).
(c) S.I....
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