The Medicines (Aristolochia and Mu Tong etc.) (Temporary Prohibition) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1368

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Aristolochia and Mu Tong etc.) (Temporary Prohibition) Order 2000

Made

18th May 2000

Laid before Parliament

19th May 2000

Coming into force

16th June 2000

As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 62(1)(a) and (2) 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, it appearing to them to be necessary in the interests of safety to make the following Order, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Order pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines pursuant to sections 62(3) and 129(7) of that Act(3), and after taking into account the report of the Medicines Commission made under section 62(5) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:—

(1)

1968 c. 67; the expressions “the appropriate Ministers” and “the Health Ministers” are defined in section 1 of that Act as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142.

(2)

In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and articles 2(1) and 5 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the powers vested in the Minister in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Department was named with its present name by virtue of article 3(b) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1).

(3)

Section 62(3) refers to “the appropriate committee”, which is defined in section 4(6) of the Act. The Committee on Safety of Medicines was established under section 4 of the Act, by S.I. 1970/1257, for the purposes set out in that instrument.