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These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Child Safety) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 15th June 1994.
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(1) Regulation 2(3) of the Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 1975 (child resistant containers for aspirin and paracetamol) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) For sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(b) reclosable containers which are opaque or dark-tinted, identical in all respects to containers which comply with the requirements of British Standard EN 28317 published by the British Standards Institution on 15 February 1993, or”.
(3) For sub-paragraph (e) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(e) reclosable containers which are opaque or dark-tinted, identical in all respects to containers which comply with the requirements of British Standard 6652 published on 30 September 1985 as amended and re-published on 30 June 1989, and which—
(i) have been certified by the British Standards Institution as complying with those requirements, or
(ii) are part of a series of containers in respect of which the licensing authority has been furnished with a report by the British Standards Institution to the effect that such containers comply with the requirements of British Standard 6652 as amended.”.
Signed by Authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health
23rd May 1994John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales
24th May 1994Fraser of Carmyllie
Minister of State The Scottish Office
24th May 1994Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 24th day of May 1994.
F. A. Elliott
Permanent Secretary
