Medicines (Cessation of Application of Act to Oral Dental Gums) Order 2016

No. S 542

Medicines Act

(CHAPTER 176)

Medicines (Cessation of Application of Act to Oral
Dental Gums) Order 2016

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77 of the Medicines Act, the Minister for Health makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order is the Medicines (Cessation of Application of Act to Oral Dental Gums) Order 2016.

Definitions

2.  In this Order —

“oral dental gum” means any chewing gum, or any like substance prepared from a gum base of vegetable or synthetic origin, and intended to be chewed for use in promoting dental health or oral hygiene, but does not include any such gum which is manufactured or imported into Singapore solely for research and development purposes by a person who is registered under the Control of Manufacture Act (Cap. 57) in respect of the manufacture of chewing gum;

“Oral Dental Gums Regulations” means the Health Products (Oral Dental Gums) Regulations 2016 (G.N. No. S 539/2016);

“product licence” means a product licence mentioned in section 5(1) of the Act;

“registrant”, in relation to an oral dental gum, means a person who has applied for and obtained the registration of the oral dental gum under the Health Products Act (Cap. 122D).

Cessation of application of Act

3.  The provisions of the Act cease to apply to any oral dental gum as from 1 November 2016.

Saving and transitional provisions

4.—(1)  Every oral dental gum for which a product licence is valid immediately before 1 November 2016 is deemed, on or after that date and for so long as the product licence remains valid, to be registered as an oral dental gum under the Health Products Act (Cap. 122D).

(2)  On or after 1 November 2016, the holder of a product licence mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1) is deemed to be a registrant, and subject to the duties of a registrant, under the Health Products Act and the Oral Dental Gums Regulations.

(3)  Every import licence mentioned in section 5(2) of the Act for the import of an oral dental gum that is valid immediately before 1 November 2016 is treated, on or after that date and for so long as the licence remains valid, as if it were an importer’s licence mentioned in section 13 of the Health Products Act.

(4)  Every manufacturer’s licence granted for an oral dental gum under section 6(2) of the Act that is valid immediately before 1 November 2016 is treated, on or after that date and for so long as the licence remains valid, as if it were a manufacturer’s licence mentioned in section 12 of the Health Products Act.

(5)  Every wholesale dealer’s licence granted for an oral dental gum under section 6(3) of the Act that is valid immediately before 1 November 2016 is treated, on or after that date and for so long as the licence remains valid, as if it were a wholesaler’s licence mentioned in section 14 of the Health Products Act.

(6)  On or after 1 November 2016, the holder of any import, manufacturer’s or wholesale dealer’s licence mentioned in sub‑paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) is deemed, for so long as the licence remains valid, to be the holder of, and subject to the duties of a holder of, an importer’s, a manufacturer’s or a wholesaler’s licence, as the case may be, under the Health Products Act and the Oral Dental Gums Regulations.

Made on 31 October 2016.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

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