Irish Medicines Board Act 1995
Number 29 of 1995
IRISH MEDICINES BOARD ACT 1995
REVISED
Updated to 1 March 2024
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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Number 29 of 1995
IRISH MEDICINES BOARD ACT 1995
REVISED
Updated to 1 March 2024
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Amendment of Enactments
Number 29 of 1995
IRISH MEDICINES BOARD ACT 1995
REVISED
Updated to 1 March 2024
AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION IN RELATION TO THE REGULATION OF THE MANUFACTURE, PRODUCTION, PREPARATION, IMPORTATION, ADVERTISEMENT, SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICINAL AND COSMETIC PRODUCTS, FOR THOSE AND OTHER PURPOSES TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BOARD TO BE KNOWN AS THE IRISH MEDICINES BOARD, TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL DRUGS ADVISORY BOARD AND THE CONFERRAL OF ITS FUNCTIONS ON THE IRISH MEDICINES BOARD AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS. [15th November, 1995]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions in relation to Act transferred to Health Service Executive (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 58, 59 and sch. 3, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Dissolution of health boards and other specified bodies.
58.—The specified bodies are, by this Act, dissolved on the establishment day.
Transfer of functions of specified bodies to Executive.
59.—(1) The functions that, immediately before the establishment day, were the functions of a specified body under or in connection with the enactments referred to in Schedule 3 are, by this Act, transferred to the Executive on that day.
(2) If a provision of an enactment referred to in Schedule 3, or a provision of an instrument made under such enactment, does not come into effect until on or after the establishment day, a function that on the passing of that enactment or the making of that instrument was assigned under or in connection with that provision to a specified body is, by this Act, transferred to the Executive on the commencement of that provision.
(3) The functions transferred by this Act to the Executive include the functions specified in any enactment referred to in Schedule 3 as a function of the following:
(a) the chief executive officer of a health board;
(b) the Regional Chief Executive of the Eastern Regional Health Authority;
(c) the area chief executive of an Area Health Board.
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SCHEDULE 3
Transfer of Functions and References to Functional Areas
Section 59 and 67
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39. Irish Medicines Board Act 1995
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Application of Act extended (15.06.2000) by Customs-Free Airport (Extension of Laws) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 169 of 2000), reg. 3.
3. The provisions of the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995 (No 29 of 1995), together with any Regulations made under Section 32 thereof and any other Regulations in force for the time being by virtue of Section 34(4) of the said Act, are hereby extended to the Customs-free Airport at Shannon.