The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 915

MEDICINES

The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2006

Made

23rd March 2006

Laid before Parliament

3rd April 2006

Coming into force

1st May 2006

The Secretary of State for Health and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, make the following Order in the exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 57(1) and (2), 58(1), (1A), (4), (4A), (4B) and (5), and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968(1), or, as the case may be, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in them(2).

In accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, they have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order. In accordance with sections 58(6) and 129(7) of that Act, they have consulted and taken into account the advice of the Committee on Safety of Medicines(3).

(1)

1968 c. 67. The expression “the appropriate Ministers” and the expression “the Health Ministers”, which are relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of this Order, 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 paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and by article 5(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/794; section 58 of that Act was amended by section 1 of the Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992 (c. 28), by section 63 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), by article 54(3) of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to, S.I. 2002/253, and by regulation 8 of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2005/1094.

(2)

In the case of the Secretary of State for Health, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, by virtue of the powers vested in the Ministers 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), which 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 renamed by virtue of Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1.).

(3)

See paragraph 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 to S.I. 2005/2754.