The Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Order 1988

Made: 8th June 1988

Laid before Parliament: 10th June 1988

Coming into force: 1st July 1988

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

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) (Amendment) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st July 1988.

• (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

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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.

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

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

Signed

John Moore — Secretary of State for Social Services — 7th June 1988

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 6th June 1988

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 26th May 1988

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 3rd June 1988.

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 7th day of June 1988.

F. A. Elliott — Permanent Secretary

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 8th day of June 1988.

David M. Carnson — Under 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 which provides for exemptions from the restrictions imposed by section 52 of the Medicines Act 1968.

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

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1968 c. 67; “the appropriate Ministers” referred to in section 57 is defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote); 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; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/1980.

[^f00004]: Items shown in italics did not appear in Part B of Schedule 1 as amended by S.I. 1987/1980.

[^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. 1987/1980.

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