Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021

12 Fees, offences, powers of inspectors, costs

(1) Regulations under section 10(1) may make provision—

(a) about the charging of fees in connection with the exercise of a function conferred by a veterinary medicines provision,

(b) creating a criminal offence of failing to comply with a provision made in the regulations,

(c) applying powers of entry or other powers of an inspector in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2033) with or without modification in relation to a prohibition or requirement in provision made in regulations under section 10(1), or

(d) about the recovery of costs incurred in the administration of improvement notices or seizure notices under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 (see regulations 38 and 41).

(2) Regulations under section 10(1) may not provide for an offence to be punishable with a sentence of imprisonment of more than two years.

(3) Regulations applying powers of entry in reliance on subsection (1)(c) may not confer a power of entry in respect of premises used wholly or mainly as a private dwelling unless those premises, or any part of them, are approved, registered or authorised for the sale or supply of veterinary medicines under a veterinary medicines provision.

(4) In this section, “veterinary medicines provision” means a provision in—

(a) regulations under section 10(1), or

(b) the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.