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Statutory Instruments
MEDICINES
Made
11th June 1996
Laid before Parliament
20th June 1996
Coming into force
12th July 1996
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 sections 95(1)(b) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) and now vested in them(2), and 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 these Regulations(3) and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission(4), hereby make the following Regulations:
1968 c. 67 (“the Act”). The expression “the appropriate Ministers”, used in section 95, is defined in section 1(2)(a) of the Act.
In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388) and in the case of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland 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).
See section 129(6) of the Act.
See section 129(7) of the Act.
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