The Medicines (Provision of False or Misleading Information and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 1710

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Provision of False or Misleading Information and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005

Made

24th June 2005

Laid before Parliament

1st July 2005

Coming into force-

1st August 2005

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) in relation to medicinal products(2), in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by the said section 2(2), the Secretary of State, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 47(1) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(3), or, as the case may be, the powers conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them(4), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:—

(1)

1972 c. 68.

(2)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(3)

1968 c. 67.

(4)

In the case of the Secretary of State, by virtue of articles 2(1) and 5 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and articles 3(7) of and 5(2) of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 2002/794; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the powers vested in the Ministers in charge of those Departments 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 Departments by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1). The Departments were re-named by virtue of Article 3(4) and (6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1).