The Medicines (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 2442

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) Order 1989

Made

20th December 1989

Coming into force

1st January 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the power conferred by section 130(3A)(a) of the Medicines Act 1968(1)and now vested in them(2), 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, of which a draft has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990. Specification of intermediate medicated feeding stuffs to be treated as medicinal products

2.—(1) For the purposes of the Medicines Act 1968, the class of medicated feeding stuff specified in paragraph (2) below is to be treated as a medicinal product (subject to the provisions of section 130 (4) and (5) of that Act).

(2) The class referred to in paragraph (1) above is any substance which is manufactured, sold, supplied or imported for use wholly or mainly as an ingredient in the preparation of a substance which is to be fed to one or more animals for a medicinal purpose or for purposes that include that purpose, with or without further processing. In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 18th December 1989.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

20th December 1989

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

18th December 1989

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 19th day of December 1989.

W J Hodges

Permanent Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies a class of intermediate medicated feeding stuff which is to be treated as a medicinal product for the purposes of the Medicines Act 1968. This class is any substance for use wholly or mainly as an ingredient in the preparation of a substance which is to be fed to animals for a medicinal purpose or for purposes that include that purpose.

(1)

1968 c. 67; “the Agriculture Ministers” referred to in section 130(3A) is defined in section 1 (see also the following footnote); section 130(3A) was inserted by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), section 13(2).

(2)

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 Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland 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).