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Medicines And Medical Devices Act 2021

Contents

Part 7: Extent, commencement and short title

Section 49: Extent

  1. This section provides that the Act is UK wide in that it extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Section 50: Commencement

  1. Subsection (1) lists the provisions in this Act that come into force on the day the Act is passed.
  2. Subsection (2) lists the provisions that come into force two months after Royal Assent.
  3. Subsection (3) provides that certain medical devices provisions in this Act (Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 4) come into force on the day or days specified by the Secretary of State in regulations.
  4. Subsection (4) provides that regulations made in reliance on sections 7 or 18 that come into force within two months of the Act being passed, may only be made if those regulations contain a declaration that the person (or persons) making them considers that they need to be made urgently to protect the public from an imminent risk of serious harm to health.

Section 51: Transitional etc provision in connection with commencement

  1. Subsection (1) gives the Secretary of State the power to make transitional, transitory or saving provision in connection with the commencement of this Act. The exception to this is in relation to provisions that could be made by the relevant Northern Ireland department (as set out in subsection (4)).
  2. Subsection (2) gives the relevant Northern Ireland department the power to make transitional, transitory or saving provisions related to the coming into force of Parts 2 and 3 as far as they relate to Northern Ireland.
  3. Subsection (3) provides that no provision may be made by the relevant Northern Ireland department in reliance on subsection (2) above, if such a provision would if it were contained in an Act be outside the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly or require the consent of the Secretary of State.
  4. Subsection (5) provides that regulations made by a Northern Ireland department are to be made by statutory rule.
  5. Subsection (6) defines what is meant by "relevant Northern Ireland department".

Section 52: Short title

  1. The short title of this Act is the Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021.

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