Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 2714 (C. 119)
Medicines
The Health Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2008
Made
14th October 2008
The Secretary of State for Health makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 83(7) and (8) of the Health Act 2006( 1 ).
Citation
1. This Order may be cited as the Health Act 2006 (Commencement No.6) Order 2008.
Appointed day for provisions relating to medicines and pharmacies
2. 1st October 2009 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Health Act 2006—
(a) sections 27, 28, 29 and 31;
(b) section 30 in so far as it is not already in force( 2 ); and
(c) in Schedule 9, the repeal of paragraph (b) and the “and” immediately preceding it in section 77 of the Medicines Act 1968 ( 3 ).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Dawn Primarolo
Minister of State,
Department of Health
14th October 2008
Section 83(1)(e) of the Health Act 2006 commenced section 30 of that Act on Royal Assent in so far as it confers a power to make regulations or defines any expression relevant to the exercise of any such power.
1968 c.67 .