The Medicines (Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices) (Appointed Day) Order 1978
This Order appoints 1st October 1978 as the day from which the licensing restrictions on marketing, manufacture and wholesale dealing imposed by sections 7 and 8 of the Medicines Act 1968 and the restrictions on clinical trials imposed by section 31 of the Act shall, subject to certain transitional exemptions contained in sections 16 and 37 of the Act respectively, apply to intrauterine contraceptive devices. These and other specified provisions of the Act were applied to these devices by the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976.