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Statutory Instruments
Medicines
Made
28th February 2008
Laid before Parliament
6th March 2008
Coming into force
1st April 2008
The Secretary of State for Health and the Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, make the following Order in the exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 62(1)(a) and (2) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) or, in the case of the Minister, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in him(2). It appears to them to be necessary to make the Order in the interests of safety.
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 62(3) and 129(7) of that Act they have consulted and taken into account the advice of the Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee(3). They have also taken into account the report of the Committee made under section 62(5) of that Act.
1968 c.67. The expression “the Ministers”, which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of this Order, is defined in section 1 of the Act, as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, by article 2(1) of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142, and by paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407. Section 62 was amended by S.I. 2005/1094 and paragraph 35 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407.
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) 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).
See section 4(6) of the Medicines Act 1968, as substituted by regulation 5(5) of S.I. 2005/1094, for the definition of “appropriate committee” in section 62(3) and (5).
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