{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations do not apply to an inactivated autogenous vaccine that is manufactured, on the instructions of a veterinary surgeon, from pathogens or antigens obtained from an animal and used for the treatment of that animal.\n(2) Schedule 1 and Part 1 of Schedule 2 do not apply in relation to an inactivated autogenous vaccine that is—\n(a) manufactured by a person and in premises authorised in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2, on the instructions of a veterinary surgeon, from pathogens or antigens obtained from an animal; and\n(b) used for the treatment of—\n(i) other animals on the same site;\n(ii) animals intended to be sent to those premises; or\n(iii) animals on a site that receives animals from those premises.\n(3) Schedule 1 and Part 1 of Schedule 2 do not apply in relation to—\n(a) blood or blood constituents from a blood bank authorised in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2;\n(b) a product manufactured for administration under the cascade by a person and in premises authorised in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2; or\n(c) ... stem cell products for use as an autologous treatment for non-food producing animals from an ... collection centre authorised in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2.\n(4) Schedule 6 (exemptions for small pet animals) has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(3)(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(3)(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 15(3)(c) omitted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 10(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(3)(c) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 10(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(3)(c) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 10(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2033/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:44:44.019972+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."
}