No. 353/1945:

THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1945.

THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1945.

FRANCIS CONSTANTINE WARD, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers vested in the said Minister by the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932 , and by virtue of the Local Government and Public Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1945, after consultation with the Therapeutic Substances Advisory Committee, orders and declares as follows, that is to say :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Therapeutic Substances (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1945, and shall be read and construed as one with the Therapeutic Substances Regulations, 1934 to 1945, and may be cited collectively together therewith as the Therapeutic Substances Regulations, 1934 to 1945.

2. In this Order the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health and includes a Parliamentary Secretary to whom the powers of the Minister under the Therapeutic Substances Act. 1934, are for the time being delegated under Section 9 of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1939 .

3. The Therapeutic Substances (Amendment) Regulations, 1945, shall be amended by the addition of the following sub-article to paragraph 5 of the Seventh Schedule of the Therapeutic Substances (Saorstá Éireann) Regulations, 1934, that is to say :—

" (4) A preparation of penicillin containing living organisms shall not be issued. "

GIVEN under my hand this thirty-first day of December, 1945.

(Signed) F. C. WARD,

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister

for Local Government and Public Health.