{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-18.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/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Supply of feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix",
  "text": "(1) No person other than the person who manufactured the feedingstuffs or an authorised distributor may supply feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix.\n(2) The person who manufactured the feedingstuff may only supply it to—\n(a) an authorised distributor; or\n(b) an animal keeper for feeding to those animals.\n(3) A distributor may only supply it to—\n(a) another authorised distributor; or\n(b) an animal keeper for feeding to those animals.\n(4) Supply to an animal keeper must be in accordance with a written medicated feedingstuff prescription as specified in the following paragraph.\n(5) If a medicated feedingstuff prescription is for a period of longer than one month, the supplier may not provide more than one month’s supply at any one time.\n(6) No manufacturer or distributor may supply a feedingstuff to anyone not specified in this paragraph, or otherwise than in accordance with this paragraph.\n(7) The person supplying the feedingstuff must keep the medicated feedingstuff prescription for five years.\n(8) Nothing in this paragraph prevents a commercial feed manufacturer from incorporating a medicinal premix with a feedingstuff in advance of receiving a written prescription for that feedingstuff.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 18 substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(2)(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(3)(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(4) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(4) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(e)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(5) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18(7) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 18(8) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 18 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 139(i)"
    },
    {
      "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/5/paragraph/18",
    "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."
}