{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Schedule applies in relation to the following (referred to in this Schedule as “specified feed additives”) when used as feed additives—\n(a) coccidiostats;\n(b) histomonostats; and\n(c) all other zootechnical additives except—\n(i) digestibility enhancers;\n(ii) gut flora stabilisers; and\n(iii) substances incorporated with the intention of favourably affecting the environment.\n(2) It also applies in relation to the manufacture and placing on the market of feedingstuffs containing a veterinary medicinal product.\n(3) In this Schedule—\n“animal keeper” means any natural or legal person responsible for animals, whether on a permanent or a temporary basis;\n“batch” means an identifiable quantity of feed determined to have common characteristics whether in relation to origin, variety, type of packaging, packer, consignor or labelling and, in the case of a production process, a unit of production from a single plant using uniform production parameters or a number of such units when produced in continuous order and stored together;\n“cross-contamination” means contamination of a non-target feed with an active substance originating from the previous use of the relevant facilities or equipment;\n“distributor” means a feed business operator distributing specified feed additives, intermediate feedingstuff or complete feed containing specified feed additives, or intermediate feedingstuff or complete feed containing medicinal premixes;\n“feed business” means any undertaking whether for profit or not and whether public or private, carrying out any operation of production, manufacture, processing, storage, transport or distribution of feed including any producer producing, processing or storing feed for feeding to animals on their own holding;\n“feed business operator” means any person responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this Schedule are met within the feed business under that person’s control;\n“non-target feed” means feed, whether medicated or not which is not intended to contain a specific active substance;\n“premises” means any unit of a feed business;\n“premixture” means a mixture of a veterinary medicinal product or a specified feed additive with feedingstuffs materials, intended for further mixing with feedingstuffs before being fed to animals;\n“zootechnical additive” means any additive used to maintain animals in good health or favourably affect their performance.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(3) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 128(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 128(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2033/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}