The Medicines (British Pharmacopoeia Commission) Amendment Order 1982

Statutory Instruments

1982 No. 1335

MEDICINES

The Medicines (British Pharmacopoeia Commission) Amendment Order 1982

Made

14th September 1982

Coming into Operation

19th October 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 4 and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having regard to the recommendations made by the Medicines Commission and after consulting such organisations as they consider appropriate including those which appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this order pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, hereby make the following order:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Medicines (British Pharmacopoeia Commission) Amendment Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 19th October 1982.

Amendment of Article 3 of the Medicines (British Pharmacopoeia Commission) Order 1970

2.—(1) Article 3 of the Medicines (British Pharmacopoeia Commission) Order 1970 (establishment of British Pharmacopoeia Commission) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this Article.

(2) In paragraph (b) the word “and” at the end of that paragraph shall be omitted; and in paragraph (c) for “section 102(2)” there shall be substituted “section 102(3)”.

(3) After paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:—

“(d) the preparation under section 99(3)(b) of the Act of any compendium or any new edition thereof; and

(e) the preparation under section 99(3)(b) of the Act, as given effect by section 102(1) thereof, of any amendments to any compendium referred to in paragraph (d) of this Article.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

K. Clarke

Minister of State

Department of Health and Social Security

20th August 1982

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales.

Michael Roberts

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Welsh Office

25th August 1982

George Younger

Secretary of State for Scotland

26th August 1982

In witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 7th September 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 9th day of September 1982.

L.S.

N. Dugdale

Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the Official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 14th day of September 1982.

L.S.

J.A. Young

Permanent Secretary

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Medicines (British Pharmacopoeia Commission) Order 1970 so as to enable the British Pharmacopoeia Commission to prepare a compendium under section 99(3)(b) of the Medicines Act 1968 and to prepare future editions thereof and any amendments thereto. Such compendium is one containing information relating to substances and articles which are or may be used in the practice of veterinary medicine or veterinary surgery, or substances and articles which are used in the manufacture of those veterinary items. This Order also corrects an erroneous reference in Article 3(c) of the 1970 Order.

(1)

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and 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).