{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-pharmacy-and-merchants-list-order-1989/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-pharmacy-and-merchants-list-order-1989/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1056",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-pharmacy-and-merchants-list-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions for merchants in veterinary drugs",
  "text": "(1) The restrictions imposed by section 52 of the Act (restrictions on sale or supply of medicinal products not on a general sale list) shall not apply to the sale by retail of any veterinary drug not on a general sale list by the holder of the product licence in respect of that veterinary drug, by a specially authorised person or by a person who is for the time being carrying on a qualifying business, if that veterinary drug is specified in the second column of Schedule 1 and the conditions contained in paragraph (2) below and article 4 are compiled with.\n(2) No veterinary drug described in paragraph (1) above shall be sold by retail except to a person whom the seller knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, to be a person who has 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.\n(3) The restrictions imposed by section 52 of the Act shall not apply to the sale by retail of any veterinary drug not on a general sale list and not being a prescription only medicine by a person who is for the time being carrying on a qualifying business, if –\n(a) that veterinary drug –\n(i) is or contains a veterinary drug specified in Schedule 2, and\n(ii) is intended for incorporation in animal feeding stuffs at a rate below 2 kilograms per tonne of the final medicated feeding stuff,\nand the conditions contained in paragraph (4) below and article 4 are complied with; or\n(b) that veterinary drug –\n(i) is or contains a veterinary drug specified in Schedule 2, and\n(ii) is intended for incorporation in animal feeding stuffs at a rate of at least 2 kilograms per tonne of the final medicated feeding stuff,\nand the conditions contained in paragraph (5) below and article 4 are complied with.\n(4) No veterinary drug described in paragraph (3)(a) above shall be sold by retail except –\n(a) to a person whose name is entered in Part A of the Register of Manufacturers, or\n(b) to a fish farmer.\n(5) No veterinary drug described in paragraph (3)(b) above shall be sold by retail except –\n(a) to a person whose name is entered in Part A or Part B of the Register of Manufacturers, or\n(b) to a fish farmer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1056/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:42:10.501022+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."
}