{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-for-merchants-in-veterinary-drugs-order-1998/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1044",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Exemptions for Merchants in Veterinary Drugs) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-exemptions-for-merchants-in-veterinary-drugs-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\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;\n“the appropriate fee” means a fee which is payable to the registration authority of such an amount as the appropriate Ministers may with the consent of the Treasury determine from time to time;\n“authorisation” means a marketing authorisation within the meaning of the Marketing Authorisations for Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulations 1994 or a product licence granted in accordance with section 7 of the Act, and “authorised” shall be construed accordingly;\n“authorisation holder” includes a person allowed by the authorisation or licence to sell the relevant product under a specified alternative name;\n“cat wormer”, “dog wormer” and “horse wormer” mean, respectively, an anthelmintic authorised for administration to cats, dogs and horses and ponies;\n“Certificate of Competence” means a Certificate of Competence in the Safe Use of Sheep Dips issued by the National Proficiency Tests Council, or by that Council and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, showing that Parts 1 and 2 of the assessment referred to in the Certificate have been satisfactorily completed;\n“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“organophosphorus sheep dip” means a sheep dip having as its active ingredient an organophosphorus compound;\n“register” means the register of merchants in veterinary drugs kept in accordance with section 57(2A)(a) of the Act;\n“registration authority” means, for persons carrying on business in England, Scotland or Wales, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and for persons carrying on business in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland;\n“saddler” means a person carrying on a business involving in whole or in part the sale of saddlery requisites, being products and equipment and things for the maintenance of that equipment, for keeping horses or ponies, including human clothing for that purpose;\n“sale” means sale by retail, offering or exposing for sale by retail and supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly; and\n“suitably qualified person” means a person whose name is included on a list kept for the purposes of this Order by the registration authority.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Order to a numbered article or the Schedule is to the corresponding article of, or the Schedule to, this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3142, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1044/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:12.207733+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."
}