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Statutory Instruments
Medicines
Made
at 11.36 a.m. on 6th November 2024
Laid before Parliament
at 3.45 p.m. on 6th November 2024
Coming into force
27th November 2024
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Minister of Health, acting jointly, make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 62 and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(1), it appearing to them to be necessary to do so in the interests of safety, and their being of the opinion that it is essential to make the Order with immediate effect to avoid serious danger to health.
The appropriate committee have not considered the proposal to make the Order.
1968 c. 67. Section 62 has been amended by S.I. 2005/1094, 2006/2407 and 2012/1916. Section 129(5) has been amended by the Health Act 2006 (c. 28), section 32. See regulation 6(6) and (7) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), read with sections 1 and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 (both as substituted by S.I. 2012/1916), for the definition of “the Ministers” which is relevant to the powers being exercised. The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety was renamed the Department of Health by the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5), section 1(5).
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