{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-1989/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-1989/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2319",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-1989",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Medicinal products that are not prescription only",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding article 3(1)(a), a veterinary drug in respect of which there has been granted a product licence shall not be a prescription only medicine by reason that it consists of or contains a particular substance listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 where–\n(a) in relation to that substance there is an entry in one or more of columns 2 and 3;\n(b) the maximum strength in the drug of that substance does not exceed the maximum strength, if any, specified in column 2; and\n(c) the veterinary drug is sold or supplied–\n(i) if a pharmaceutical form or a route of administration is specified in column 3, in such pharmaceutical form, and for administration only by such route, as may be so specified, and\n(ii) if a use is specified in column 3, in a container or package labelled to show a use so specified to which the veterinary drug is to be put but no use not so specified.\n(2) Notwithstanding article 3(1)(a) and (c), a veterinary drug for parenteral administration consisting of or containing a substance listed in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall not be a prescription only medicine where the maximum strength of that substance does not exceed the maximum strength, if any, specified in column 2 and the veterinary drug in question is sold or supplied only for the purpose or in the circumstances specified in column 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2319/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:32:38.443514+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."
}