The Medicines (Products for Animal Use—Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Made: 16th November 2004

Laid before Parliament: 24th November 2004

Coming into force: 17th December 2004

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Citation and commencement

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Amendment of the Schedules to the Medicines (Products for Animal Use—Fees) Regulations 2004

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Transitional provisions

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Signed

Ben Bradshaw — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 11th November 2004

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

D C Gowdy — Permanent Secretary, — Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety — 11th November 2004

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Pat Toal — Permanent Secretary, — Department of Agriculture and Rural Development — 11th November 2004

We consent.

Joan Ryan — Nick Ainger — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 16th November 2004

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1971 c. 69 as amended by section 21 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49); by virtue of section 1(3) of the Medicines Act 1971 expressions in that section have the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67) (see the following footnote).

[^f00002]: “The Ministers” is defined in section 1(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 (following amendment by article 5(1) and paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 1 to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794)) as the Secretary of State acting jointly with the Ministers for Northern Ireland specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 1(1) namely the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. Section 95(5) of and paragraph 10(1)(b) of Schedule 12 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) provides that references in existing legislation to a minister in charge of a particular Northern Ireland Ministry are to be construed as references to the Northern Ireland Minister in charge of that Northern Ireland Department. The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland were renamed the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development respectively by article 3(4) and (6) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) and retained their previous functions by virtue of section 95(5) of the 1998 Act. Paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1) has effect during suspension of devolved government pursuant to section 1(8) of that Act: it provides that the functions of a Northern Ireland Minister who was in charge of a Northern Ireland Department immediately before the coming into force of section 1 of the Act may be discharged by that Department subject, according to paragraph 4(1)(f) of the Schedule, to the direction and control of the Secretary of State. Section 1(8) of the 2000 Act is in force by virtue of article 2 of the Northern Ireland Act (Suspension of Devolved Government) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2574).

[^f00003]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1972/1811.

[^f00005]: 1973 c. 51.

[^f00006]: 1968 c. 67. This subsection applies by virtue of section 1(3) of the Medicines Act 1971.

[^f00007]: OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p. 1.

[^f00008]: S.I. 2004/2750.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1994/105.

Editorial notes

[^key-358f9a4d4d282556706453a146ac7326]: Regulations revoked (30.10.2005) by The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2745), reg. 1(a), Sch. 8 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 Pt. 4)

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