Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order comes into force on 30th June 1997. It further amends the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/1924) (“the 1980 Order”) which specifies exemptions from the general requirements as to the retail sale or supply of medicinal products set out in sections 52 and 53 of the Medicines Act 1968 (“the Act”). Section 52 of the Act provides that (subject to any exemption) medicinal products not on a general sale list shall not be sold or supplied elsewhere other than on premises which are a registered pharmacy and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist. Section 53 of the Act provides that (subject to any exemption) medicinal products on a general sale list may not be sold elsewhere other than at a registered pharmacy unless certain conditions are fulfilled.
The principal amendments made to the 1980 Order by this Order are as follows:
article 2(b) amends article 5(3) of the 1980 Order to extend the scope of an exemption from the requirement to fulfil the conditions in section 53(3) of the Act in respect of the sale or supply by a person responsible for marketing a homoeopathic veterinary medicinal product registered under the Registration of Homoeopathic Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/322) (“a registered homoeopathic veterinary medicinal product”) to a person who has in his charge or maintains animals for the purposes of and in the course of carrying on a business, and
article 2(c) adds, as item 12 at the end of Part I of Schedule 1 to the 1980 Order, an exemption from the restrictions imposed by section 52 of the Act, in respect of certain sales or supplies of a registered homoeopathic veterinary medicinal product by a person responsible for marketing the product to a pharmacist to enable him to prepare an entry relating to the product in a tablet or capsule identification guide or similar publication.
In amending the 1980 Order, the Order supplements the 1997 Regulations in implementing the classification provisions of the second paragraph of Article 7.1 of Council Directive 92/74/EEC widening the scope of Directive 81/851/EEC on the approximation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to veterinary medicinal products and laying down additional provisions on homeopathic veterinary medicinal products (OJ No. L297, 13.10.92, p. 12).