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(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 29th December 1995.
(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1983.
2 
In article 1(2) of the principal Order (interpretation), for the definition of “maximum strength” there is substituted the following definition—“
 “maximum strength” means such of the following as may be specified—
(i) the maximum quantity of a substance by weight or volume contained in a dosage unit of a medicinal product;
(ii) the maximum number of units of activity contained in a dosage unit or a weight of a medicinal product; and
(iii) the maximum percentage of a substance contained in a medicinal product calculated in terms of weight in weight, weight in volume, volume in weight or volume in volume, as appropriate;”.
3 
In article 3(1)(a) of the principal Order (medicinal products on prescription only), for “Article 4(1) to (1Z)” there is substituted “Article 4(1) to (1AA)”.
4 
In article 4 of the principal Order (medicinal products that are not prescription only)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1K) before “treatment” there is inserted “prevention or”;
(b) the following paragraph is inserted after paragraph (1Z)—“
(1AA) Notwithstanding article 3(1)(a), a medicinal product shall not be a prescription only medicine by reason that it contains the substance budesonide where—
(a) the medicinal product is indicated only for the prevention or treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis in adults and in children aged not less than 12 years;
(b) it is in non-aerosol, aqueous form for nasal administration;
(c) it is sold or supplied in a container or package containing not more than 10 milligrams of the medicinal product; and
(d) the container or package is labelled to show a maximum dose, and a maximum daily dose, of 200 micrograms per nostril of budesonide.”.
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In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Order (which lists substances which render a medicinal product a prescription only medicine except in the circumstances also Listed)
(a) the following substances are inserted at the appropriate points in the alphabetical order of the substances listed in Column 1:
 Amorolfine Hydrochloride
 Calcipotriol
 Carbaryl
 Lodoxomide Trometamol
 Pancreatin;
(b) in relation to the substance Pancreatin, there are inserted in Column 2 the entries—“
(1) 21,000 European Pharmacopoeia units of lipase per capsule
(2) 25,000 European Pharmacopoeia units of lipase per gram”;
(c) in relation to the substance Pancreatin, there are inserted in Column 3 the entries—“
(1) capsules
(2) powder”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Horam
Parliamentary under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
1st December 1995William Hague
Secretary of State for Wales
6th December 1995James Douglas Hamilton
Minister of State, The Scottish Office
6th December 1995Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
F. A. Elliot
Permanent Secretary
5th December 1995.