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The Medicines (Advertising Amendments) Regulations 2005

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Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 2787

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Advertising Amendments) Regulations 2005

Made

10th October 2005

Laid before Parliament

10th October 2005

Coming into force

30th October 2005

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), being designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act in relation to medicinal products(2), and the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 95(1), (2) and (3) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(3) or, as the case may be, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in them(4), make the following Regulations.

In accordance section 129(6) of the Medicines Act 1968, they have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations.

(3)

1968 c. 67; the expression “the appropriate Ministers” and the expression the “Health Ministers”, which are relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these regulations, are defined in section 1 of that Act as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142.

(4)

In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, by virtue of the powers vested in the Minister in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) which may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1); the Department was renamed by virtue of Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1).

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