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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Treatment in exceptional circumstances",
  "text": "(1) Where the health situation so requires, and where there is no suitable veterinary medicinal product available either as an authorised product or under the cascade, a veterinary surgeon may treat an animal with a medicinal product authorised in another country; but a veterinary surgeon who has not obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State under regulation 25(5) permitting importation must obtain a certificate from the Secretary of State before treating the animal.\n(2) The certificate may be granted subject to any condition the Secretary of State thinks fit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 7(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Veterinary Medicines and Animals and Animal Products (Examination of Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/676), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(34)(f) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1461, regs. 1(2)(a), 3(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "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/4/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}