The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1995

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.

(2) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 1984(1).

(3) In this Order, a reference to inserting an entry in a column in a Table of Schedule 1 to the principal Order shall be construed, in the case of an entry to be inserted in column 1, as a reference to inserting that entry at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order of the entries in column 1 of that Table and, in the case of an entry to be inserted (as the case may be) in column 2, 3 or 4 of that Table, as a reference to inserting that entry so as to appear against the column 1 entry against which it is listed in Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, Schedule 2 to this Order.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Order

2.—(1) Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which specifies the class of medicinal products, other than products the subject of a product licence of right, on general sale by virtue of article 2(a) of that Order) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

(2) In Table A (internal or external use)—

(a) there are inserted in column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2, 3 and 4, the entries set out in columns 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively of Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) in relation to the substance “Benzoin Tincture, Compound BP”—

(i) there is inserted in column 2 the entry

“(2) 0.8 per cent.”, and

(ii) there are substituted, for the entries in column 3, the entries

“(1) Internal: vapour inhalations

(2) Internal: pastilles

(3) External”;

(c) in relation to the substance “Folic Acid”, there is substituted for the entry in column 4 the entry “500 mcg (MDD)”.

(3) In Table B (external use only), there are inserted in column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2 and 3, the entries set out in columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively of Schedule 2 to this Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Gerald Malone

Minister of State

Department of Health

4th December 1995

William Hague

Secretary of State for Wales

11th December 1995

James Douglas Hamilton

Minister of State The Scottish Office

11th December 1995

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

7th December 1995.