The Medicines (Control of Substances for Manufacture) Order 1971

• Citation: S.I. 1971/1200
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This order may be cited as the Medicines (Control of Substances for Manufacture) Order 1971 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1971.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In this order unless the context otherwise requires:—

“ the Act ” means the Medicines Act 1968 ;

“ Committee on Safety of Medicines ” means the Committee established by the Medicines (Committee on Safety of Medicines) Order 1970 ;

“ Veterinary Products Committee ” means the Committee established by the Medicines (Veterinary Products Committee) Order 1970 .

(2) The expressions used in Schedule 1 to this order have the meanings given to them in Schedule 2 to this order and other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.

(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Section 3 Application of specified provisions of the Act to specified ingredients used in the manufacture of medicinal products

There are hereby specified the substances set out in numbered paragraphs in Column 1 of Schedule 1 to this order, as being substances which when not manufactured, sold, supplied, imported or exported for use for a medicinal purpose wholly or mainly in either or both of the ways specified in section 130(1) of the Act appear to the Ministers to be substances which are not in themselves medicinal products but are used as ingredients in the manufacture of medicinal products, and it is hereby directed that the provisions contained in Part II, sections 62, 66 and 67 of Part III of the Act, and the provisions contained in Parts V and VIII of the Act shall have effect in relation to each of those substances in the circumstances set out in the corresponding paragraph of Column 2 of the said Schedule, as those provisions have effect in relation to medicinal products.