The Medicines (Labelling) Amendment Regulations 1981
These Regulations make further amendments to the Medicines (Labelling) Regulations 1976. Under those regulations the requirements as to the labelling of medicinal products may vary according to the status of a product for the purposes of Part III of the Medicines Act 1968 (prescription only, pharmacy sale, sale by agricultural merchants, general sale). One amendment provides that where that status is changed by an order made under that Part of that Act, the product may be labelled according to its previous status for a transitional period of six months following the change. Another amendment requires the labelling as pharmacy sale items of larger packs of certain products which, although on a general sale list, may normally be sold, when in those larger packs, only at a registered pharmacy. As prior to 30th January 1981 those packs were not on the general sale list, this amendment provides only that they shall be labelled in the same manner as that required before 30th January 1981.