{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Enforcement of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 the competent authority is the Secretary of State.\n(2) An authorisation under Article 3(2) of that Regulation must be in writing.\n(3) No person may possess a specified feed additive, or an intermediate feedingstuff or feedingstuffs containing a specified feed additive, unless the specified feed additive has been authorised under Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 or is for export to another country.\n(4) No person may fail to comply with any of the following provisions of that Regulation—\n(a) Article 3(1) or Article 3(3) (the authorisation, conditions of use and labelling of specified feed additives);\n(b) Article 12(1) or (2) (conditions relating to specified feed additives);\n(c) Article 16(1) (labelling);\n(d) Article 16(3) (additional labelling requirement);\n(e) Article 16(4) (premixtures containing specified feed additives);\n(f) Article 16(5) (packaging).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 3(1) substituted (26.3.2019) 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)(a), 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 3(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 129"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 3(3) 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(35)(a) (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/5/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}