Regulation 4 Restrictions on sale, supply and importation of animal feeding stuffs in which medicinal products have been incorporated

(1)

No person shall, in the course of a business carried on by him, sell or supply any animal feeding stuff in which a medicinal product, not being a prescription only medicine, has been incorporated unless—

(a)

the medicinal product was incorporated in accordance with regulation 3, or

(b)

the animal feeding stuff is sold or supplied in accordance with a veterinary written direction.

(2)

No person shall import any animal feeding stuff in which a medicinal product, not being a prescription only medicine, has been incorporated unless—

(a)

the medicinal product was incorporated in accordance with regulation 3(1)(b), or

(b)

the animal feeding stuff is imported in accordance with a veterinary written direction.

(3)

No person shall—

(a)

subject to paragraph (4) below, in the course of a business carried on by him, sell or supply any animal feeding stuff in which a prescription only medicine has been incorporated, or

(b)

import any such animal feeding stuff,

unless the animal feeding stuff is sold, supplied or imported in accordance with a veterinary written direction.

(4)

Paragraph (3)(a) above shall not apply where any animal feeding stuff in which a prescription only medicine has been incorporated in accordance with regulation 3(1)(b)(i) is sold or supplied to a person—

(a)

whose name is entered in Part A of the Register and whom the seller or supplier knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, to be a person who does not have animals under his control for the purposes of, and in the course of carrying on, a business, either as his sole business activity or as a part of his business activities unless for research or educational purposes only, or

(b)

whose name is entered in the register kept by the Society or by the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under article 3(7) of the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) Order 1985^f1.

(5)

Subject to paragraph (6) below, no person shall, in the course of a business carried on by him, sell or supply a final medicated feeding stuff in which there has been incorporated a medicinal product in respect of which there is no product licence or animal test certificate relating to the incorporation of that product in an animal feeding stuff unless—

(a)

the final medicated feeding stuff has been analysed to determine the quantity of every ingredient included in the medicated feeding stuff for a medicinal purpose, and

(b)

the results of that analysis have been attached to his copy of the veterinary written direction.

(6)

Paragraph (5) above shall not apply—

(a)

to a fish farmer; or

(b)

where—

(i)

a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner believes it necessary to authorise analysis to be done after sale or supply of the final medicated feeding stuff on grounds of immediate danger to the health of animals under his care and the veterinary written direction authorises such analysis on those grounds, and

(ii)

within 7 days of such sale or supply the seller or supplier of the final medicated feeding stuff analyses it or sends it for analysis and in either case attaches the results of the analysis to his copy of the veterinary written direction.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1985/1823, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.