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The Administration of the Act

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Two groups of Ministers are responsible for the administration of the Act —

  1. (a)

    ‘Health Ministers’, i.e. the Secretary of State for Social Services, the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales, and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland,

  2. (b)

    ‘Agriculture Ministers’, i.e. the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.

‘the Ministers’ means all of them acting jointly.

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Harrison, I.H. (1986). The Administration of the Act. In: The Law on Medicines. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4141-0_2

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