{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/433",
  "legislation_title": "Importation of Animal Pathogens Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exceptions to prohibition",
  "text": "The prohibition contained in Article 4(1) shall not apply to the importation of any animal pathogen or carrier contained in a product—\n(a) permitted to be placed on the market under the Marketing Authorisations for Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulations 1994 or the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 ;\n(b) licenced in accordance with the provisions of section 7(2) of the Medicines Act 1968; or\n(c) in respect of which an animal test certificate has been issued in accordance with the provisions of section 32 of that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(a) substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 108 (with Sch. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in operation at 15.11.1999, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3142 as amended by S.I. 1998/1048"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3144 as amended by S.I. 1998/3105"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1968 c. 67"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/433/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:40.097038+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}