The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1995

• Citation: S.I. 1995/3215
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (pack size on retail sale or supply of certain medicinal products on a general sale list)—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “paragraphs (2), (2A) and (3)” there is substituted “paragraphs (2) to (2C) and (3)”;

(b) after paragraph (2A) there are inserted the following paragraphs—

(2B) Where a medicinal product for human use containing ibuprofen is sold by retail in the course of a business elsewhere than at a registered pharmacy or is so offered or exposed for sale by retail or so supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, the product shall be presented for sale in a separate and invididual container or package containing—

(a) in the case of tablets, not more than 12 tablets;

(b) in the case of capsules, not more than 12 capsules;

(c) in the case of powder or granules, not more than 12 sachets;

(d) in the case of a product for topical use, not more than 2.5 grams of ibuprofen.

(2C) Where a medicinial product for topical human use containing clotrimazole is sold by retail in the course of a business eleswhere than at a registered pharmacy or is so offered or exposed for sale by retail or so supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, the product shall be presented for sale in a separate and individual container or package containing not more than 500 milligrams of clotrimazole.