The Medicines (Carbadox Prohibition) (Revocation) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 2216

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Carbadox Prohibition) (Revocation) Order 1987

Made

18th December 1987

Laid before Parliament

22nd December 1987

Coming into force

15th January 1988

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 the powers conferred by sections 62 and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) and now vested in them(2), 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 Order in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Veterinary Products Committee(3) in accordance with sections 62(3) and 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Carbadox Prohibition) (Revocation) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 15th January 1988.

Revocation

2.  The Medicines (Carbadox Prohibition) Order 1986(4) is revoked.

John Moore

Secretary of State for Social Services

10th December 1987

Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

22nd November 1987

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

24th November 1987

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 22nd November 1987.

L.S.

John MacGregor

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 18th day of December 1987.

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 18th day of December 1987.

L.S.

W. H. Jack

Permanent Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order implements in part the provisions of Council Directive 87/316/EEC (OJ No. L160, 20.6.87, p. 32) amending Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feeding stuffs in respect of carbadox, by revoking the Medicines (Carbadox Prohibition) Order 1986.

That Order prohibited the sale or supply of medicinal products consisting of or containing carbadox, and of animal feeding stuffs in which such medicinal products had been incorporated.

(1)

1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in section 62 is defined in section 1.

(2)

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in 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 the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b).

(3)

A committee established under section 4 of the Medicines Act 1968 by virtue of S.I. 1970/1304.

(4)

S.I. 1986/1368.