LegalizeThe Medicines (Monitoring of Advertising) Amendment Regulations 1999
Made: 9th March 1999
Laid before Parliament: 15th March 1999
Coming into force: 5th April 1999, in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721 in relation to medicinal products2, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2(2), and 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 the powers conferred upon them by sections 95(1) and (6) of the Medicines Act 19683, or, as the case may be, powers conferred by the said provisions and now vested in them4, and in each case of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation (in accordance with section 129(6) of the Medicines Act 1968) with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:–
Citation ad Commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Monitoring of Advertising) Amendment Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 5th April 1999, immediately after the Medicines (Advertising and Monitoring of Advertising) Amendment Regulations 19995 come into force.
Amendment of the Medicines (Monitoring of Advertising) Regulations 1991
2
In paragraph 7(a) of the Schedule to the Medicines (Monitoring of Advertising) Regulations 19946, for “level 5 on the standard scale” there shall be substituted “the statutory maximum”.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Hayman — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 8th March 1999
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jon Owen Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 9th March 1999
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Scotland
Sam Galbraith — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 9th March 1999
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
D. C. Gowdy — Permanent Secretary — 5th March 1999.
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend paragraph 7(a) of the Schedule to the Medicines (Monitoring of Advertising) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1933), as inserted by the Medicines (Advertising and Monitoring of Advertising) Amendment Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/267), in order to clarify the maximum penalty available on summary conviction of the either way offence referred to in paragraph 7.
Footnotes
1968 c. 67; see section 1(2)(a) of the 1968 Act, which contains a definition of “the appropriate Ministers” which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations.
In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and Wales, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969; 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).
S.I. 1994/1933; the Schedule was inserted by S.I. 1999/267.
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