Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021 (c. 3)

PART 2 U.K. Human medicines

CHAPTER 1 U.K. [F1 Regulations: general]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 heading substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 101(2), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)

7 Emergencies U.K.

(1) Regulations under section 2(1) may make provision about the disapplication of a human medicines provision in circumstances which give rise to a need to protect the public from a risk of serious harm to health.

(2) Regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) may provide for the disapplication to be subject to—

(a) conditions set out in the regulations;

(b) conditions set out in a protocol published by the appropriate authority.

(3) Where regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) provide that the appropriate authority may publish a protocol setting out conditions, the regulations must provide—

(a) that the appropriate authority may withdraw or amend the protocol, and

(b) that the protocol is to have effect only for a period of time specified in the protocol.