Therapeutic Substances Act 1956

5 Power to make regulations

(1) The joint committee, after consultation with the advisory committee, may make regulations for the following purposes;—

(a) for prescribing the standard of strength, quality and purity of any substance to which this Part of this Act applies;

(b) for prescribing the tests to be used for determining whether the standard prescribed as aforesaid has been attained;

(c) for prescribing units of standardisation ;

(d) for adding to the First Schedule to this Act any therapeutic substance the purity or potency of which cannot be adequately tested by chemical means;

(e) for prescribing the form of licences under this Part of this Act and of applications therefor, and of notices to be given in connection therewith;

(f) for prescribing the conditions subject to which licences may be issued, including, in the case of a licence to manufacture, conditions that the licensee shall allow any inspector authorised by the licensing authority in that behalf to enter any premises where the manufacture is carried on, and to inspect the premises and plant and the process of manufacture and the means employed for standardising and testing the manufactured substance and to take samples thereof ;

(g) for excluding from the operation of this Part of this Act, or of any of the provisions thereof, any substance intended to be used solely for veterinary purposes ;

(h) for prescribing any other matter which under this Part of this Act is to be prescribed.

(2) Regulations so made may also, as respects any such substance to which this Part of this Act applies as may be specified in the regulations, contain provisions—

(a) requiring that, if advertised or sold as a proprietary medicine or contained in such a medicine, such accepted scientific name, or name descriptive of the true nature and origin of the substance, as may be prescribed shall appear on the label;

(b) requiring that the date of the manufacture shall be stated in the prescribed manner on all vessels or other packages in which the substance is sold or offered for sale, and prohibiting the sale of the substance after the expiration of the prescribed period from the date of manufacture;

(c) prohibiting the sale or the offering for sale of the sub stance otherwise than in a vessel or other container of such character as may be prescribed, and requiring that the prescribed label or other description shall be affixed to the vessel or other container in which the substance is sold or offered for sale.