Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67)

10(1)Section 92 of the Medicines Act 1968 (scope of provisions restricting promotion of sales of medicinal products) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) (meaning of “advertisement”) for the words from “or by the exhibition” to “service” substitute “or by means of a photograph, film, sound recording, broadcast or cable programme,”.

(3)In subsection (2) (exception for the spoken word)—

(a)in paragraph (a) omit the words from “or embodied” to “film”; and

(b)in paragraph (b) for the words from “by way of” to the end substitute “or included in a cable programme service”.

(4)For subsection (6) substitute—

(6)In this section “film”, “sound recording”, “broadcast”, “cable programme”, “cable programme service”, and related expressions, have the same meaning as in Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (copyright)..