1999 No. 2510
The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland respectively, 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 on them by sections 53(4) and 129(1) and (5) of the Medicines Act 19681 or, as the case may be, those conferred by those provisions and now vested in them2, 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 these Regulations pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 30th September 1999.
Amendment of regulation 8 of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 19802
In regulation 8 of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 19803 (pack size on retail sale or supply of certain medicinal products on a general sale list)—
a
in paragraph (1), for “paragraphs (2) to (2E) and 3” there is substituted “paragraphs (2) to (2F) and 3”; and
b
after paragraph (2E) there is inserted—
2F
Where a medicinal product for human use containing ranitidine hydrochloride is sold by retail in the course of a business elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy or is so offered or exposed for sale by retail or so supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, the product shall be presented for sale in a separate and individual container or package containing not more than 12 tablets.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on
(This note is not part of the Regulations)