{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicated-feedingstuffs-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1046",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicated Feedingstuffs Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicated-feedingstuffs-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context requires otherwise—\n“agricultural merchant” means a person who carries on a business involving in whole or in part the sale of agricultural requisites (being things used for soil cultivation or keeping of animals for production of food or game, equipment for collecting produce from animals kept for production of food, things for the maintenance of that equipment and protective clothing) and whose name is for the time being entered in the Register of Merchants in accordance with the provisions of the Medicines (Exemptions for Merchants in Veterinary Drugs) Order 1998;\n“animal test certificate” has the same meaning as in section 32 of the Medicines Act 1968;\n“the appropriate fee” means, in relation to any description of application for approval, renewal of approval or late renewal of approval of premises or as distributor listed in Schedule 1 by number, the fee specified opposite the application in question;\n“approved distributor” means—\n(a) a distributor who has been approved as a distributor to retail supply a medicated feedingstuff pursuant to regulation 11 and whose approval as such has not been withdrawn pursuant to regulation 15 and remains valid, or\n(b) until and including 30th September 1998, a person who immediately before these Regulations came into force was listed in Category 2 of the Register of Merchants as referred to in the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) Order 1992;\n“approved premises” means—\n(a) premises which have been approved pursuant to regulation 4 as premises on which a medicated feedingstuff may be manufactured and the approval for which has not been withdrawn pursuant to regulation 8 and remains valid, or\n(b) until and including 30th September 1998, premises that immediately before these Regulations came into force were referred to in Part A or B of the Register of Manufacturers of Animal Feedingstuffs kept pursuant to regulation 3 of the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (No. 2) Regulations 1992;\n“an Article 7.2 scientific test” means a test to which the provisions of Article 7.2 of the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive apply;\n“authorised intermediate product” means an intermediate product prepared from authorised medicated pre-mixes;\n“authorised medicated pre-mix” has the meaning given by Article 2(a) of the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive;\n“authorised person” means a person (whether or not an officer of the enforcement authority) who is authorised by the enforcement authority, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under these Regulations;\n“Directive 81/851/EEC” means Council Directive 81/851/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to veterinary medicinal products as amended by Council Directives 90/676/EEC and 93/40/EEC;\n“E.E.A. Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area, signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1993 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“E.E.A. State” means a State which is a contracting party to the E.E.A. Agreement other than the United Kingdom;\n“the enforcement authority” means—\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland;\n“financial year” means the 12 months from and including 1st April and ending with 31st March;\n“the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive” means Council Directive 90/167/EEC laying down the conditions governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs in the Community as adapted by the E.E.A. Agreement;\n“medicinal test on animals” has the meaning given by section 32(6) of the Medicines Act 1968;\n“an MFS certificate” means a certificate corresponding to the specimen in Annex B to the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive;\n“an MFS prescription” means a prescription made out by a registered veterinarian in a form containing the headings shown on the specimen in Annex A to the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive and personally signed and dated by such veterinarian;\n“personal licence” means a licence granted under section 4 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986;\n“placing on the market” has the meaning given by Article 2(b) of the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“premises” includes a farm;\n“prohibition notice” means a notice served under regulation 17(1);\n“project licence” means a licence granted under section 5 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986;\n“proper”, in relation to an application, means required by these Regulations to be processed by the relevant authority to which the application is made;\n“the Register of Merchants” means the register of merchants in veterinary drugs kept in accordance with section 57(2A)(a) of the Medicines Act 1968;\n“regulated procedure” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; and\n“the relevant authority” means—\n(a) in the case of—\n(i) premises situated in, and\n(ii) persons operating as distributors, or intending to operate as distributors from,\nGreat Britain, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and\n(b) in the case of—\n(i) premises situated in, and\n(ii) persons operating as distributors, or intending to operate as distributors from,\nNorthern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.\n(2) The expressions listed in Part I of Schedule 2 have the same meaning as in the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive and any other expression which is used in these Regulations and the Medicated Feedingstuffs Directive, other than an expression which is listed in Part II of Schedule 2, shall have, insofar as the context admits, the same meaning as in that Directive.\n(3) The expressions listed in Part II of Schedule 2 have, insofar as the context admits, the same meaning as in Directive 81/851/EEC.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n(a) any reference to a numbered regulation or to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the regulation of or the Schedule to these Regulations so numbered in these Regulations, and\n(b) any reference in a regulation or a Schedule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1044."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/33, amended by S.I. 1992/3081, 1994/599, 3142 and 3169, 1995/3193, 1996/3034 and 1997/2892 and revoked by S.I. 1998/1044."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1520; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/1531 and 1995/799. Revoked by S.I. 1998/1048."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No. L317, 6.11.81, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "OJ No. L373, 31.12.90, p.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "OJ No. L214, 24.8.93, p.31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.572."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "OJ No. L92, 7.4.90, p.42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1986 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/161",
      "affecting_title": "Medicated Feedingstuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst (E, W, S)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/697",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicated Feedingstuffs (Amendment) (England, Scotland and Wales) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}