{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2568",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) (Amendment) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-amendment-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Order",
  "text": "–\n(1) The principal Order shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this article.\n(2) For article 6(1) (exemptions for certain persons) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–\n“6 –\n(1) The restrictions imposed by section 58(2)(a) (restrictions on sale and supply) shall not apply–\n(a) to the sale or supply by a person listed in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 3, or\n(b) to the supply by a person listed in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 3,\nof the prescription only medicines listed in column 2 of Part I or Part II, as the case may be, of Schedule 3 in relation to that person if and so long as the conditions specified in the corresponding paragraphs in column 3 of Part I or Part II, as the case may be, of Schedule 3 are fulfilled.”\n(3) In article 10 (transitional provision) for the words “article 3(1)(e)”, in both places, there shall be substituted “article 3(1)(d)”.\n(4) In Schedule 1–\n(a) after the entry “Edrophonium Chloride” there shall be inserted the following entry–\n“\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nEfrotomycin\nIncorporation in feed as a growth promoter for –\n(1) Piglets up to 4 months of age at levels from 4-8 ppm\n(2) Pigs between 4 and 6 months of age at levels from 4-6 ppm\n”\n(b) after the entry “Sulphapyridine Sodium” there shall be inserted, in column 1, the following two entries–\n“Sulphaquinoxaline\nSulphaquinoxaline Sodium”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2568/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:34:31.019514+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."
}