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22 Construction of references to publications.U.K.

(1)The following paragraphs shall be inserted after paragraph (c) of section 103(1) of the M1Medicines Act 1968—

(ca)the International Pharmacopoeia;

(cb)the Cumulative List of Recommended International Nonproprietary Names;

(2)Regulations and orders made under the Medicines Act 1968 before the passing of this Act shall be construed as if section 103(1) of that Act, as originally enacted, had included the paragraphs added by subsection (1) above, but their addition does not extend the meaning of “specified publication”, where that term is used in regulations and orders so made.

(3)References to International Nonproprietary Names in regulations and orders made under that Act before the passing of this Act shall be construed as references to names contained from time to time in the Cumulative List.

(4)In section 103(3) of the Medicines Act 1968 for the words “other than this”, there shall be substituted the words “contained in this Act or in any other”.

(5)Regulations and orders made under that Act before the passing of this Act shall be construed as if—

(a)section 103(3) of that Act, as originally enacted, had included the words added to it by subsection (4) above; and

(b)the power to make them had been exercised in the manner provided by section 103(3).

(6)In section 103(5) after the word “force”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “, under whatever title,”.

(7)Regulations and orders made under that Act before the passing of this Act shall be construed as if section 103(5), as originally enacted, had included the words added by subsection (6) above.

(8)This section does not alter the meaning of any instrument in respect of a period before the passing of this Act.

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