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The Medicines (Contact Lens Fluids and Other Substances) (Advertising and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1979

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2.—(1) In these regulations—

the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;

contact lens substance” means any substance for use in cleaning, disinfecting, irrigating, lubricating, wetting or storing any contact lens or blank or any fluid in which such lens or blank is soaked or rinsed or any fluid used as a barrier between such lens or blank and the human eyeball or any other substance used in connection with the use of such lens or blank;

data sheethas the same meaning as in section 96(6) of the Act;

descriptionhas the same meaning as in section 130(8) of the Act;

information sheet” means an advertisement, other than a data sheet, in the form of a leaflet relating to a contact lens substance;

optician” means a person who is registered in any register established and maintained under section 2 of the Opticians Act 1958 either as an ophthalmic optician or as a dispensing optician; and

the Schedule” means the Schedule to these regulations.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation of these regulations bearing that number.

(3) In this regulation and in the Schedule, the expression “contact lens” refers only to a contact lens which consists of a thin curved shell of glass, plastic or other hard or soft material intended for use by being applied to the human eyeball and the word “blank” refers only to a blank from which a contact lens is to be prepared.

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