Medicines (Licensing of Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1978
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1978/1140 |
| Year | 1978 |
1978 No. 1140
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Licensing of Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 197831stJuly 1978
10thAugust 1978
1stOctober 1978
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 18, 85(1), 85(4), 86(1), 91(2) and (3) and 129(1) 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 the following regulations, hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Licensing of Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1978 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1978.
(2) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to any enactment, order, rules or regulations shall be construed as a reference to that enactment or order or those rules or regulations, as the case may be, as amended, extended or re-enacted by any other enactment, order, rules or regulations.
(3) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply for the purposes of the interpretation of these regulations as they apply for the purposes of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(a) 1968 c. 67 as applied to, and modified for the purposes of, intra-uterine contraceptive devices by the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/968).
(b) In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and 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...
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