The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (Amendment) Order 1995

Made: 8th December 1995

Laid before Parliament: 11th December 1995

Coming into force: 1st January 1996

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, and with the consent of the Treasury in accordance with section 57(2A) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (Amendment) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.

Amendment

2

The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) Order 1992[^f00003] shall be amended so as to substitute for Schedules 1 to 5 the Schedules numbered 1 to 5 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Cumberledge — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 3rd December 1995

Lindsay — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 8th December 1995

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 30th November 1995

Angela Browning — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 6th December 1995

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this

F.A. Elliot — Permanent Secretary — 7th day of December 1995.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this

J. Murray — Permanent Secretary — 5th day of December 1995.

We consent,

Bowen Wells — Derek Conway — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 6th December 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) Order 1992 so as to alter the fees payable on registration, retention of registration and restoration of registration of agricultural merchants and saddlers under that Order. The old and new fees are set out in the new Schedule 5 in the Schedule to this Order.

Amendments are also made to Schedules 1 to 4 to the 1992 Order to take account of product licences or marketing authorisations granted, withdrawn or expired since the Order was last amended (these Schedules are reprinted in their entirety for ease of reference).

A Compliance Cost Assessment has been prepared and a copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Woodham Lane, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB.

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. 1969/338, 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. 1992/33, amended by S.I. 1992/3081, 1994/599, 3142 and 3169.

[^f00004]: Items shown in italics did not appear in the Schedule to S.I. 1992/33, as amended by S.I. 1994/3169.

[^f00005]: Alternative product names used by specially authorised persons are shown for paragraph 4(1) only.