The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1982

Statutory Instruments

1982 No. 28

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Sale Or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1982

Made

14th January 1982

Laid before Parliament

21st January 1982

Coming into Operation

11th February 1982

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 53(4) and 129(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these regulations pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to section 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 11th February 1982.

Amendment of regulations

2.  Regulation 8(2) of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 is amended by omitting the word “and” in sub-paragraph (b) and adding, at the end of sub-paragraph (c), the words

“; and

(d) in the case of capsules, not more than 25 capsules”.

Norman Fowler

Secretary of State for Social Services

12th January 1982

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

13th January 1982

George Younger

Secretary of State for Scotland

14th January 1982

In witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 13th January 1982.

L.S.

Peter Walker

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 13th day of January 1982.

L.S.

N. Dugdale

Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 13th day of January 1982.

L.S.

J.A. Young

Permanent Secretary

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 so as to provide that those medicinal capsules for human use which contain aloxiprin, aspirin, paracetamol or salicylamide and which are on the general sale list may be sold or supplied by retail elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy only in packs of 25 or less, thus making the position of such capsules the same in this respect as that of tablets containing similar ingredients.

(1)

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of Article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388); in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of Article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272; and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36) and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c.28).