
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 30th September 1999.
2 
In regulation 8 of the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 (pack size on retail sale or supply of certain medicinal products on a general sale list)—
(a) in paragraph (1), for “paragraphs (2) to (2E) and 3” there is substituted “paragraphs (2) to (2F) and 3”; and
(b) after paragraph (2E) there is inserted—“
(2F) Where a medicinal product for human use containing ranitidine hydrochloride 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 individual container or package containing not more than 12 tablets.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Hunt
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
6th September 1999David Hanson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, The Welsh Office
8th September 1999John Reid
Secretary of State, The Scotland Office
8th September 1999Hayman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
8th September 1999Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
D. C. Gowdy
Permanent Secretary
8th September 1999Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on
P. Small
Permanent Secretary
7th September 1999