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Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 684

The Medicines (Fixing of Fees Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use) Order 1989

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1989 No. 684

FEES AND CHARGES

The Medicines (Fixing of Fees Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use) Order 1989

Made17th April 1989
Coming into force18th April 1989

    Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of the House of Commons in pursuance of section 102(5) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987[1]:
    Now, therefore, the Secretaries of State for Health, for Wales, for Scotland and for Northern Ireland and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being the Ministers of the Crown determined by the Treasury to be the appropriate authority in relation to the power to fix fees under section 1(1) of the Medicines Act 1971[2] acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by section 102 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987, hereby make the following Order:-
    Citation, commencement and interpretation
        1.—(1)  This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Fixing of Fees Relating to Medicinal Products for Human Use) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

        (2)  In this Order-
      "the 1968 Act" means the Medicines Act 1968[3];
      "the 1971 Act" means the Medicines Act 1971[4];
      "the 1987 Act" means the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987;
      "medicinal product" includes any substance or article specified in any order made under section 104 or 105(1)(a) of the 1968 Act which directs that Part II of that Act shall have effect in relation to such substance or article;
      and other expressions have the same meaning as in the 1968 Act.

    Functions the costs of which are to be taken into account in fixing fees under the 1971 Act
        2.    In relation to the power of the Ministers under section 1(1) of the 1971 Act to make regulations providing for the payment of such fees as are prescribed by the regulations with regard to the matters specified in that subsection, the functions specified for the purpose of section 102(3) of the 1987 Act are, as respects matters relating to medicinal products for human use, those functions set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.
    Matters to be taken into account in determining the costs of functions specified in Schedule 1 hereto
        3.    In relation to each of the functions specified by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order for the purposes of section 102(3) of the 1987 Act, the matters specified for the purposes of section 102(4) of that Act are those set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.


Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

D. Mellor

Minister of State, Department of Health

13th April 1989

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

12th April 1989

Malcolm Rifkind

Secretary of State for Scotland

12th April 1989

Tom King

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

17th April 1989
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereto affixed on
13th April 1989.


John MacGregor

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food





Notes:

[1] 1987 c. 51.

[2] See section 102(2)(b) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987.

[3] 1968 c. 67.

[4] 1971 c. 69, as amended by section 21 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49).

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