{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-2001/schedule-2/part-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-veterinary-drugs-prescription-only-order-2001/schedule-2/part-II.json",
  "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": "schedule/2/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "administration",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nPersons exempted\nPrescription only medicines to which the exemption applies\nConditions\n1 Persons who are authorised as members of a group by a group authority granted under regulation 8(3) or 9(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations to supply a controlled drug by way of administration only.\n1 Prescription only medicines that are specified in the group authority.\n1 The administration shall be in accordance with the group authority.\n2 Persons who have in their charge or who maintain animals for the purposes of and in the course of carrying on a business either as their sole business activity or as a part of their business activities.\n2 Any veterinary drug such as is described in a list kept under article 3 of the Merchants Exemption Order which, so far as it is for parenteral administration, is a prescription only medicine.\n2 The administration shall be only to animals in their charge or under their maintenance for the purposes of and in the course of carrying on the business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1646/schedule/2/part/II",
    "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."
}