The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by section 60 of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them(1) and the said Secretaries of State together with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland being designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to medicinal products and safety measures in regard to radioactive substances and the emission of ionising radiation, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) and in each case in exercise of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following regulations, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission, hereby make the following regulations:—