SCHEDULE 8 U.K.AMENDMENTS TO THE MEDICINES ACTS ETC.

PART 1 U.K.Consequential amendments to the Medicines Acts 1968 and 1971

The Medicines Act 1968 U.K.

69.  In Schedule 4 (provisions relating to Northern Ireland)(1)—

(a) omit paragraphs 2 to 5;

(b) in paragraph 6—

(i) for “The appropriate Northern Ireland Minister or Ministers” substitute “The appropriate Northern Ireland Minister”,

(ii) for “appropriate Ministers” substitute “Ministers”,

(iii) omit “, section 35”, and

(iv) omit “or their”;

(c) omit paragraph 7;

(d) in paragraph 8—

(i) omit “, or the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, or both those Ministers,”, and

(ii) omit “, paragraph 5”;

(e) in paragraph 9—

(i) for ““the appropriate Northern Ireland Minister or Ministers”” substitute ““the appropriate Northern Ireland Minister””,

(ii) in paragraph (a), omit the words from “for the purpose” to “of animals,”,

(iii) omit paragraphs (b) and (c), and

(iv) omit the words after paragraph (c); and

(f) in paragraph 10—

(i) omit “or to the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland”,

(ii) for “either or both of those Ministers” substitute “that Minister”,

(iii) omit the words from “or, as the case may require” to the end.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 Pt. 1 para. 69 in force at 1.10.2006, see reg. 1

(1)

Schedule 4 was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 to S.I. 1979/1573 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to S.I. 1976/2713.