The Medicines (Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medicinal Products) (Revocation) Order 1984

Made: 6th August 1984

Coming into Operation: 6th September 1984

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 4(1) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 and now vested in them[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having regard, pursuant to the said section 4(1), to the recommendation made by the Medicines Commission under section 3(2) of that Act and after consulting such organisations as they consider appropriate pursuant to the said section 4(1), including those which appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following order pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, hereby make the following order:—

Citation and commencement

1

This order may be cited as the Medicines (Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medicinal Products) (Revocation) Order 1984 and shall come into operation on 6th September 1984.

Revocation

2

The Medicines (Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medicinal Products) Order 1978 is revoked.

Signed

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

John Patten — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Department of Health and Social Security — 25th July 1984

Nicholas Edwards — Secretary of State for Wales — 29th July 1984

George Younger — Secretary of State for Scotland — 31st July 1984

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 6th day of August 1984.

Maurice N. Hayes — Permanent Secretary

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This order revokes the Medicines (Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medicinal Products) Order 1978, thereby abolishing the Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medicinal Products which was established by that order for the purpose of giving advice with respect to the safety, quality and efficacy, in relation to radiation, of any substance or article for human use to which any provision of the Medicines Act 1968 is applicable.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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).