Article 2 Exemption from licences for procuring the manufacture of certain products for stock

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 2(1)(b) revoked by Veterinary Medicines 2005 Sch. 8 Pt. 3 para 6(4)
art. 2(1)(c)(ii) revoked by Veterinary Medicines 2005 Sch. 8 Pt. 3 para 6(5)
art.2(7) added by Medicines (Restrictions on the Administration of Veterinary Medicinal Products) 1994 reg.12
art. 2(4) revoked by Veterinary Medicines 2005 Sch. 8 Pt. 3 para 6(5)
art. 2(7) revoked by Veterinary Medicines 2005 Sch. 8 Pt. 3 para 6(6)

(1)

Subject to the following paragraphs of this Article, the restrictions imposed by section 7 of the Act (licences for dealings in medicinal products) shall not apply to anything done—

(a)

by a doctor or dentist which relates to a medicinal product specially prepared by him, or to his order for administration to one or more patients of his or where that doctor or dentist is a member of a group of doctors or dentists working together to provide general medical or dental services, to one or more patients of any other doctor or dentist of that group, and consists of procuring the manufacture or assembly, of a stock of the product with a view to administering the product to such patients;

(b)

by a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner which relates to a medicinal product specially prepared by him or to his order for administration to one or more animals under his care or, where that veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner is a member of a group of veterinary surgeons or veterinary practitioners working together to provide general veterinary services, to one or more animals under the care of any other veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner of that group and consists of procuring the manufacture or assembly of a stock of the product with a view to administering it to such animals;

(c)

in a registered pharmacy, a hospital or a health centre and is done there by or under the supervision of a pharmacist and consists of procuring the manufacture or assembly, of a stock of medicinal products with a view to dispensing them in accordance with a prescription given by—

(i)

a particular doctor or dentist, or, where that particular doctor or dentist is a member of a group of doctors or dentists working together to provide general medical or dental services, or is a member of a particular group of doctors or dentists working together in a hospital in the treatment of the same patient or category of patients, any other doctor or dentist of that group, or

(ii)

a particular veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner or, where that particular veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner is a member of a group of such veterinary surgeons or veterinary practitioners working together to provide general veterinary services, any other veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner of that group, or

(iii)

a practitioner for administration to a particular patient of his, or as the case may be, to a particular animal or herd which is under his care.

(2)

The exemption conferred by the preceding paragraph shall not apply to procuring the manufacture of medicinal products unless the products are to be manufactured by the holder of a manufacturer's licence which satisfies the condition specified in Article 2(2)(v) of the Special Cases Order as amended by Article 5 of this Order.

(3)

Paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) of this Article shall not have effect so as to exempt from the restrictions imposed by section 7 of the Act anything done by a practitioner in relation to a stock held by him of such medicinal products in excess of a total of 5 litres of fluid and 2.5 kilograms of solids of all medicinal products to which those paragraphs relate.

(4)

Paragraph (1) of this Article shall not have effect so as to exempt from the restrictions imposed by section 7 of the Act anything done—

(a)

in relation to a vaccine specially prepared for administration to poultry, or

(b)

in relation to any other vaccine, unless the vaccine is specially prepared for administration to the animal from which it is derived, or

(c)

in relation to plasma, or a serum, unless the plasma or serum is specially prepared for administration to one or more animals in the herd from which it is derived.

(5)

So long as section 12 of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 remains in force in its application to Great Britain, paragraph (1)(c) of this Article in so far as that paragraph relates to a registered pharmacy, shall apply to anything done in the premises of an authorised seller of poisons within the meaning of that Act, being premises that are entered in the register kept under the said section 12.

(6)

So long as section 17 of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Northern Ireland) 1925 remains in force, paragraph (1)(c) of this Article, in so far as that paragraph relates to a registered pharmacy, shall apply to anything that is done on premises for which an annual licence is in force under the said section 17.