28.—(1) The regulations specified in Schedule 7 are hereby revoked.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any register, record, book, prescription or other document required to be preserved under regulation 23 or 24 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 M1 shall be preserved for the same period of time as if these Regulations had not been made.
(3) In the case of a prescription issued before the coming into force of these Regulations, regulation 16(1) shall have effect as if—
(a)in the case of a prescription containing a controlled drug other than a drug to which the provisions of regulation 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 applied at the time the prescription was issued, sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of that paragraph were omitted; and
(b)in any other case, for the said sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there were substituted the words “ unless the prescription complies with the provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 relating to prescriptions ”.
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