
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 12th January 1982.
2 

(1) The Medicines (Labelling) Regulations 1976 are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) To regulation 14A there is added, after paragraph (4), the following paragraph:—“
(5) Without prejudice to the operation of paragraph (1) of this regulation, every container and every package immediately enclosing a container of a medicinal product which is a product referred to in regulation 8 of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 which is not presented for sale in the manner described in relation to that product in that regulation and which is not a dispensed medicinal product shall, where the product—
(a) is sold by retail, or
(b) is supplied in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, or
(c) is in the possession of a person for the purpose of such sale or supply, or
(d) is sold by way of wholesale dealing,be labelled to show the capital letter “P” within a rectangle within which there shall be no other matter of any kind.”.
(3) After regulation 19, there is inserted the following regulation:—“


19A 
Where, by reason of the coming into operation of an order made under section 51 (general sale list), section 57 (exemptions from restrictions on retail sale or supply) or section 58 (prescription only) of the Act, a container or package of a medicinal product would, but for this regulation, be required by regulations 14A, 14B, 14C or 14D of these regulations to be labelled with new or different words or particulars, that container or package may, during a period of six months from the date of coming into operation of that order, be labelled either—
(a) so as to show those new or different words or particulars, or
(b) so as to comply with such of the requirements imposed by regulations 14A, 14B, 14C or 14D of these regulations as were applicable to it immediately before that date.
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Norman Fowler
Secretary of State for Social Services
30th November 1981Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
1st December 1981George Younger
Secretary of State for Scotland
3rd December 1981In witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 4th December 1981.
Peter Walker
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 9th day of December 1981.
N. Dugdale
Permanent Secretary
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 9th day of December 1981.
J.A. Young
Permanent Secretary
