{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-relevant-veterinary-medicinal-products-order-2005/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-relevant-veterinary-medicinal-products-order-2005/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2751",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Relevant Veterinary Medicinal Products Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-relevant-veterinary-medicinal-products-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescription fees and prohibition of discrimination",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), during the relevant period a veterinary surgeon must not charge a client a fee for providing a prescription.\n(2) During the relevant period a veterinary surgeon may pass on to his clients the costs incurred in providing prescriptions, provided that he does so in a manner that does not discriminate between clients to whom he gives prescriptions and clients to whom he does not.\n(3) It shall be unlawful for a veterinary surgeon to discriminate between a client to whom he provides prescriptions and a client to whom he does not, in—\n(a) the price he charges for a relevant veterinary medicinal product; and\n(b) the fee he charges for supplying veterinary services other than giving a prescription.\n(4) In paragraphs (1) and (2), “relevant period” means the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 31.10.2005, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2751/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:35:27.923783+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."
}