The Medicines (Child Safety) Amendment Regulations 1994

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 1975

2.—(1) Regulation 2(3) of the Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 1975(1) (child resistant containers for aspirin and paracetamol) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) For sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) reclosable containers which are opaque or dark-tinted, identical in all respects to containers which comply with the requirements of British Standard EN 28317 published by the British Standards Institution on 15 February 1993, or”.

(3) For sub-paragraph (e) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(e) reclosable containers which are opaque or dark-tinted, identical in all respects to containers which comply with the requirements of British Standard 6652 published on 30 September 1985 as amended and re-published on 30 June 1989, and which—

(i) have been certified by the British Standards Institution as complying with those requirements, or

(ii) are part of a series of containers in respect of which the licensing authority has been furnished with a report by the British Standards Institution to the effect that such containers comply with the requirements of British Standard 6652 as amended.”.

(1)

S.I. 1975/2000, amended by S.I. 1976/1643 and 1987/877.