{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Supply by a suitably qualified person",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may recognise bodies that are suitable to maintain a register for suitably qualified persons to prescribe and supply veterinary medicinal products classified as POM-VPS and NFA-VPS.\n(2) In order to recognise such a body, the Secretary of State must be satisfied that the body—\n(a) has in place a system for ensuring that persons applying for registration have adequate training to act as a suitably qualified person under these Regulations;\n(b) has adequate standards in deciding whether or not to register someone as a suitably qualified person;\n(c) maintains a programme of continuing professional development for persons registered with it;\n(d) operates an adequate appeal system if it intends to refuse to register anyone with appropriate qualifications or to remove anyone from the register.\n(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, a suitably qualified person is a person who has passed examinations specified by such a body, and is registered with such a body as a suitably qualified person.\n(4) A suitably qualified person may only supply a veterinary medicinal product classified as POM-VPS, NFA-VPS or AVM-GSL, and may only supply it from—\n(a) premises authorised by the Secretary of State as being suitable for the storage and supply of veterinary medicinal products by a suitably qualified person;\n(b) premises registered as a pharmacy with the General Pharmaceutical Council or with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland; or\n(c) practice premises registered under these Regulations as being premises from which a veterinary surgeon supplies veterinary medicinal products.\n(5) A suitably qualified person who supplies a product classified as POM-VPS or NFA-VPS must be present when it is handed over unless the suitably qualified person—\n(a) authorises each transaction individually before the product is supplied; and\n(b) is satisfied that the person handing it over is competent to do so.\n(6) A suitably qualified person supplying products from premises authorised under this regulation by the Secretary of State who considers that the premises no longer comply with the authorisation must notify the Secretary of State without unreasonable delay.\n(7) The Secretary of State may issue a Code of Practice for suitably qualified persons and bodies recognised under this paragraph, and a body recognised under this paragraph must take appropriate action in accordance with any disciplinary code that applies to that body if a suitably qualified person registered with it does not comply with the Code of Practice.\n(8) The Secretary of State must publish a list of—\n(a) suitably qualified persons; and\n(b) the trading names and the addresses of premises authorised under this paragraph.\n(9) A suitably qualified person may break open any package (other than the immediate packaging) of a veterinary medicinal product.\n(10) The Secretary of State may suspend or revoke the authorisation of authorised premises on being satisfied that they are no longer suitable for the storage and supply of veterinary medicinal products.\n(11) The Secretary of State must, from time to time, inspect premises authorised under sub-paragraph (4)(a) basing the frequency of the inspection on the risks associated with each premises’ history and the nature of the products handled at the premises.\n(12) The Secretary of State may suspend or revoke recognition of a body mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) where the body fails to comply with a provision of any Code of Practice issued under this paragraph.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 14 substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 107(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 14(5) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 107(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 14 substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 107(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 14(7) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 107(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 14(11)(12) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 107(e)"
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Published at: http://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/registers/sqpregister.aspx."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2033/schedule/3/paragraph/14",
    "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."
}