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(1) This Order, which may be cited as the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Amendment Order 1989, shall come into force on 9th June 1989.
(2) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 1984.
(3) In this Order, a reference to inserting an entry in a column in a Table of a Schedule to the principal Order shall be construed, in the case of an entry to be inserted in column 1, as a reference to inserting that entry at the appropriate point in the alphabetical order of the entries in column 1 of that Table and, in the case of an entry to be inserted, as the case may be, in column 2, 3 or 4 of that Table, as a reference to inserting that entry so as to appear against the column 1 entry against which it is listed in the Table set out in Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, Schedule 2 to this Order.
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(1) Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which specifies the class of medicinal products, other than products the subject of a product licence of right, on general sale by virtue of article 2(a) of the principal Order) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.
(2) In Table A (internal or external use)–
(a) there shall be inserted in column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2, 3 and 4 those entries set out in columns 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively of Schedule 1 to this Order; and
(b) for the entry “(1) 600mg” in column 2 relating to the substance “Benzalkonium Chloride”, there shall be substituted the entry “(1) 600mcg”.
(3) In Table B (external use only)–
(a) there shall be inserted in column 1 and, as the case may be, columns 2 and 3, those entries set out in columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively of Schedule 2 to this Order; and
(b) the entry “Turpentine Oil” in column 1 shall be deleted.
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In Table A of Schedule 2 to the principal Order (which specifies the class of medicinal products the subject of a product licence of right on general sale by virtue of article 2(b) of the principal Order) the entry “Danthron” in column 1 and the corresponding entry “50mg(MD)” in column 4 shall be deleted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
D. Mellor
Minister of State,
Department of Health
22nd May 1989Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
23rd May 1989Malcolm Rifkind
Secretary of State for Scotland
25th May 1989In witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 8th June 1989.
John MacGregor
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 22nd day of May 1989.
F. A. Elliott
Permanent Secretary
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 22nd day of May 1989.
W. J. Hodges
Permanent Secretary

SCHEDULE 1
Article 2(2)(a)


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4
Substance Maximum Strength Use, pharmaceutical form or route of administration Maximum dose and maximum daily dose
Agropyron (triticum)
Asafetida
Avena (oats)
Benzoin Tincture, Compound BP  
(1) Internal: Vapour inhalations
(2) External
Berberis  Bitter, Stomachic Equivalent to 500mcg. berberine (MD).
Biotin
Dandelion Root
Edible Bone Flour (bonemeal)
Folic Acid   200mcg (MDD)
Garlic
Ground Ivy
Hops (lupulus)
Horehound, white
Magnesium Oxide, heavy
Menyanthes (bogbean, buckbean)
Methyl Cellulose
Pectin
Prickly Ash Bark (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis)
Soya Oil
Starch
Tolu Balsam
Turpentine Oil  
(2) 5% 
(1) Internal: vapour inhalations except preparations to be applied topically
(2) Internal: vapour inhalations from products to be applied topically
(3) External
SCHEDULE 2
Article 2(3)(a)


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Substance Maximum Strength Use, pharmaceutical form or route of administration
Bismuth Subgallate
Calcium Alginate
Ichthammol
Iodoform 
(1) 10%
(2) 50% 
(1) Paints
(2) Pastes
Kaolin, Heavy
Padimate 0
Proflavine Hemisulphate
Soft Soap
Wool Alcohols