{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2006/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2006/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2407",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Food-producing animals: records of administration by a veterinary surgeon",
  "text": "(1) If a veterinary surgeon administers a veterinary medicinal product to a food-producing animal he must either enter the following information himself in the keeper’s records or give it to the keeper in writing (in which case the keeper must enter the following into his records)—\n(a) the name of the veterinary surgeon;\n(b) the name of the product and the batch number;\n(c) the date of administration of the product;\n(d) the amount of product administered;\n(e) the identification of the animals treated; and\n(f) the withdrawal period.\n(2) It is an offence to fail to comply with this regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 1.10.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2407/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:22:09.984208+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."
}