The Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 1997

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Amendment Order 1997 and shall come into force on 16th September 1997 except for article 2(c) which shall come into force on 16th September 1998.

(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997(1).

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Order

2.  In Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which specifies substances which if included in medicinal products make those products prescription only medicines and exemptions from restrictions on the sale and supply of prescription only medicines)

(a) in the entry for “Carbenoxolone Sodium”, there is substituted for “506mg” in column 5, “560mg”;

(b) the entry for “Terfenadine” is amended by the deletion of the entries “120mg (MDD)” in column 4 and “Container or package containing not more than 1,200mg of Terfenadine” in column 5; and

(c) there are inserted in column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2, 3 and 5, at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order of the entries as they appear in column 1, each of the entries set out in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order, together with the corresponding text in columns 2, 3 and 5 respectively of that Schedule.

Frank Dobson,

Secretary of State for Health

12th August 1997

Win Griffiths,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Welsh Office

20th August 1997

Sam Galbraith,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,The Scottish Office

26th August 1997

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

L.S.

D. C. Gowdy,

Permanent Secretary

20th August 1997.