The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1987 No. 1250


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Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1250

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1987

Made

17th July 1987

Laid before Parliament

24th July 1987

Coming into force

25th July 1987

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 58(1), (4)(a) and 129(4) 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 this Order pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission pursuant to sections 58(6) and 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1. This Order, which may be cited as the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1987, amends the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1983(3) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order") and shall come into force on 24th July 1987.

Amendment of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Order

2. In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which lists substances which render a medicinal product a prescription only medicine except in circumstances also listed)-

(a)in column 1, for the words "Inosine Franobex", there are substituted the words "Inosine Pranobex"; and

(b)in column 2 of the entry relating to Podophyllum Resin, for the maximum strength "2.0 per cent", there is substituted the maximum strength "20.0 per cent".

Amendment of Part IV of Schedule 1 to the principal Order

3. In Part IV of Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which lists the name and product licence number of medicinal products that are not prescription only medicines)-

(a)after the entry relating to "Beechams Hydrocortisone Cream 0079/0203" there is inserted, "Boots Hydrocortisone Ointment 0014/0364";

(b)after the entry relating to "Efcortelan P Ointment 1% 0004/0326" there is inserted, "Evacort Cream 0039/0198"; and

(c)the entry relating to "Cortovate Hydrocortisone Cream 1% 0039/0198" is deleted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton

Minister of State

Department of Health and Social Security

17th July 1987

P. Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

17th July 1987

Malcolm Rifkind

Secretary of State for Scotland

17th July 1987

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 17th July 1987.

L.S.

John MacGregor

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 17th day of July 1987.

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 17th day of July 1987.

L.S.

W. H. Jack

Permanent Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1983 (the principal Order) which specifies descriptions and classes of prescription only medicines, that is to say medicinal products which (subject to exemptions) may be sold or supplied by retail only in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner and which may be administered only by or in accordance with the directions of such a practitioner.

The amendments made by this Order are as follows-

Article 2 amends Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Order.

Article 2(a) substitutes the words Inosine Pranobex for the words Inosine Franobex in the list of substances which render medicinal products a prescription only medicine.

Article 2(b) alters the circumstances in which a medicinal product containing the substance Podophyllum Resin is excluded from being a prescription only medicine.

Article 3 amends Part IV of Schedule 1 to the principal Order.

Article 3(a) and (b) insert the names and product licence numbers of two medicinal products that are not prescription only medicines.

Article 3(c) deletes the name and product licence number of a medicinal product from the said Part IV.

(2)

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), in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of Article 2(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272) and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments 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).

(3)

S.I. 1983/1212, amended by S.I. 1984/756, 1986/586 and 1987/674.


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