Department of Health

MEDICINES ACT 1968

British Pharmacopoeia 2005

The Health Ministers, that is to say the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and the Department1 of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, having on the recommendation of the Medicines Commission caused to be published the British Pharmacopoeia 2005, hereby give notice in accordance with section 102(5) of the Medicines Act 1968 that the subject matter contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2005 shall take effect on 1st December 2005 except that where a different effective date is indicated in the text in respect of any part of that subject matter, that different date, notice of which has already been given in accordance with section 102(5), shall be the date for that part of the subject matter to take effect.

For the purposes of section 102(6) of the Medicines Act 1968, the printer to Her Majesty of all Acts of Parliament has been authorised by the said Ministers to print copies of the subject matter contained in. the British Pharmacopoeia 2005.

Copies of the British Pharmacopoeia 2005 may be obtained from the Stationery Office Publications Centre, P.O. Box 276, London SW8 5DT.