The Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Order 1987

Made: 26th June 1987

Laid before Parliament: 8th July 1987

Coming into force: 29th July 1987

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57(1), (2) and (2A) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 1968[^f00001] and now vested in them[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Order in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:—

Title, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 29th July 1987.

• (2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) Order 1985[^f00003].

Amendment of the principal Order

2

The principal Order shall be amended—

• (a) by substituting for Part B of Schedule 1 (veterinary drugs sold by merchants) the provisions set out in Schedule 1 to this Order;

• (b) by substituting for Part B of Schedule 2 (veterinary drugs for incorporation in animal feeding stuffs) the provisions set out in Schedule 2 to this Order;

• (c) by substituting for Schedule 4 (horse wormers) the provisions set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.

SCHEDULE 1 — CONTAINING NEW PART B OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL ORDER

SCHEDULE2 — CONTAINING NEW PART B OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE PRINCIPAL ORDER

SCHEDULE 3 — CONTAINING NEW SCHEDULE 4 TO THE PRINCIPAL ORDER

Signed

John Moore — Secretary of State for Social Services — 25th June 1987

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 19th June 1987

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 22nd June 1987

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 26th June 1987.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 23rd day of June 1987.

M. N. Hayes — Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 24th day of June 1987.

W. H. Jack — Permanent Secretary

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) Order 1985.

The Order substitutes updated provisions for Part B of Schedule 1 (veterinary drugs sold by merchants), Part B of Schedule 2 (veterinary drugs for incorporation in animal feeding stuffs) and Schedule 4 (horse wormers) to that Order (article 2). The items shown in italics in the new provisions have been inserted in those Schedules whilst other items have been deleted.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1968 c. 67; section 57(2A) was inserted by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), section 14.

[^f00002]: In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388, in the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272 and in the case of the Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1985/1823, amended by S.I. 1986/982, 1997.

[^f00004]: Items shown in italics did not appear in Part B of Schedule 1 as amended by S.I. 1986/1997.

[^f00005]: Alternative product names used by specially authorised persons are not shown.

[^f00006]: Items shown in italics did not appear in Part B of Schedule 2 as amended by S.I. 1986/1997.

[^f00007]: Alternative product names used by specially authorised persons are not shown.

[^f01000]: Alternative product names used by specially authorised persons are not shown.