{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-49.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Labelling of the outer packaging of veterinary medicinal products",
  "text": "(1) The following information must be provided on any outer packaging of a veterinary medicinal product—\n(a) the information referred to in paragraph 48(1);\n(b) the contents by weight, volume or number of the immediate packaging units of the veterinary medicinal product;\n(c) a warning that the veterinary medicinal product must be kept out of the sight and reach of children;\n(d) a warning that the veterinary medicinal product is “for animal treatment only”;\n(e) a recommendation to read the package leaflet, if there is one;\n(f) in the case of a veterinary medicinal product not subject to a veterinary prescription, the indication for use;\n(g) the marketing authorisation number.\n(2) The information referred to in sub-paragraph (1) must appear in easily legible and clearly comprehensible characters, or in abbreviations or pictograms.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 49 substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 62 (with reg. 200)"
    },
    {
      "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/schedule/1/paragraph/49",
    "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."
}