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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-2001/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1646",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-2001",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Medicinal products on prescription only",
  "text": "The following descriptions or classes of medicinal products are specified for the purposes of section 58 of the Act—\n(a) veterinary drugs specified in Schedule 1;\n(b) veterinary drugs which contain controlled drugs;\n(c) veterinary drugs for parenteral administration which do not fall within paragraph (a) or (b) above;\n(d) veterinary drugs—\n(i) which do not fall within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above; and\n(ii) in respect of which there is a marketing authorisation granted or varied after 30th March 2001 in accordance with an application containing a provision to the effect that the method of sale or supply of the veterinary drug in question is to be only in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner; and\n(e) veterinary drugs granted a marketing authorisation, in accordance with the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2309/93 (laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products), after the coming into force of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L214, 24.8.93, p.1."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1646/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:49:47.450944+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."
}