1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Fixing of Fees Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) In this Order–
“the 1968 Act” means the Medicines Act 1968(1);
“the 1971 Act” means the Medicines Act 1971(2);
“the 1987 Act” means the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987;
“medicinal product” includes any substance or article specified in any order made under section 104 or 105(1)(a) of the 1968 Act which directs that Part II of that Act shall have effect in relation to such substance or article;
and other expressions have the same meaning as in the 1968 Act.
2. In relation to the power of the Ministers under section 1(1) of the 1971 Act to make regulations providing for the payment of such fees as are prescribed by the regulations with regard to the matters specified in that subsection, the functions specified for the purpose of section 102(3) of the 1987 Act are, as respects matters relating to medicinal products for human use, those functions set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.
3. In relation to each of the functions specified by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order for the purposes of section 102(3) of the 1987 Act, the matters specified for the purposes of section 102(4) of that Act are those set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
D. Mellor
Minister of State,
Department of Health
13th April 1989
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
12th April 1989
Malcolm Rifkind
Secretary of State for Scotland
12th April 1989
Tom King
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
17th April 1989
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereto affixed on 13th April 1989.
L.S.
John MacGregor
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food