{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicated-feedingstuffs-regulations-1998/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicated-feedingstuffs-regulations-1998/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1046",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicated Feedingstuffs Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicated-feedingstuffs-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Retail supply of authorised medicated pre-mixes",
  "text": "(1) No person shall retail supply an authorised medicated pre-mix unless he is the person responsible for placing the pre-mix on the market, an agricultural merchant who is not subject to a prohibition notice in relation to the pre-mix or a manufacturer of medicated feedingstuffs.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall retail supply an authorised medicated pre-mix unless he supplies it (either directly or via a preparer of an authorised intermediate product) to a manufacturer of medicated feedingstuffs—\n(a) who is neither a stockfarmer nor a holder of animals, or\n(b) who is a stockfarmer or holder of animals, and\n(i) possesses an MFS prescription in which he is named as the manufacturer of the medicated feedingstuff prescribed and which provides for the medicated feedingstuff to be manufactured using the authorised medicated pre-mix, or\n(ii) has received an order from an approved distributor to manufacture a medicated feedingstuff in accordance with an MFS prescription in which the distributor is named as the supplier of the prescribed medicated feedingstuff and which provides for the medicated feedingstuff to be manufactured using the authorised medicated pre-mix.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) shall prohibit the retail supply (whether direct or via a preparer of an authorised intermediate product) of authorised medicated pre-mixes which are anthelmintic medicinal products (vermifuges) to a manufacturer of medicated feedingstuffs who, while being a stockfarmer or holder of animals, does not come within paragraph (2)(b)(i) or (ii) if—\n(a) the pre-mixes come within the first indent of Article 8.2 of the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive, and\n(b) any medicated feedingstuffs obtained from such pre-mixes are used in accordance with the second indent thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1046/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:10.792573+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."
}