{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2745",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Administration under the cascade",
  "text": "(1) If there is no authorised veterinary medicinal product in the United Kingdom for a condition the veterinary surgeon responsible for the animal may, to avoid unacceptable suffering, treat the animal concerned with the following (“the cascade”), cascaded in the following order—\n(a) a veterinary medicinal product authorised in the United Kingdom for use with another animal species, or for another condition in the same species; or\n(b) if and only if there is no such product that is suitable, either—\n(i) a medicinal product authorised in the United Kingdom for human use; or\n(ii) a veterinary medicinal product not authorised in the United Kingdom but authorised in another member State for use with any animal species (in the case of a food-producing animal, it must be a food-producing species); or\n(c) if and only if there is no such product that is suitable, a veterinary medicinal product prepared extemporaneously by a pharmacist, a veterinary surgeon or a person holding a manufacturing authorisation authorising the manufacture of that type of product.\n(2) In the case of a veterinary medicinal product imported from another member State, if the veterinary surgeon has not obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State under regulation 25(5) permitting him to import it, he must obtain a certificate from the Secretary of State before he administers it.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph a food-producing animal includes an animal belonging to the equidae family unless it has been declared, in accordance with Commission Decisions 93/623/EEC (establishing the identification document (passport) accompanying registered equidae) and 2000/68/EC (amending Decision 93/623/EEC and establishing the identification of equidae for breeding and production), as not being intended for slaughter for human consumption.\n(4) Any pharmacologically active substances included in a medicinal product administered to a food-producing animal under the cascade must be listed in Annex I, II or III to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2377/90.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L298, 3.12.1993, p. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 23, 28.1.2000, p. 72."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2745/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:34.048072+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."
}