The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1989

Restrictions on sale, supply and importation of animal feeding stuffs in which medicinal products have been incorporated

4.—(1) No person shall, in the course of a business carried on by him, sell or supply any animal feeding stuff in which a medicinal product, not being a prescription only medicine, has been incorporated unless the medicinal product was incorporated in accordance with regulation 3.

(2) No person, shall import any animal feeding stuff in which a medicinal product, not being a prescription only medicine, has been incorporated unless there is a valid product licence or animal test certificate relating to the incorporation of that medicinal product (whether held by him or another person), and the medicinal product was incorporated in accordance with regulation 3(1)(b).

(3) No person shall, in the course of a business carried on by him, sell or supply any animal feeding stuff in which a prescription only medicine has been incorporated unless–

(a) subject to paragraph (5) below, there is a valid product licence or animal test certificate relating to the incorporation of that medicinal product (whether held by him or another person) and the animal feeding stuff is sold or supplied in accordance with a veterinary written direction; or

(b) that person is satisfied that the sale or supply has been requested by a veterinary surgeon or a veterinary practitioner who, by reason of any emergency, is unable to furnish a veterinary written direction immediately but who has undertaken to furnish that person with a veterinary written direction within 72 hours.

(4) No person shall import any animal feeding stuff in which a prescription only medicine has been incorporated unless there is a valid product licence or animal test certificate relating to the incorporation of that medicinal product (whether held by him or another person) and the animal feeding stuff is sold, supplied or imported in accordance with a veterinary written direction.

(5) Paragraph (3)(a) above shall not apply where any animal feeding stuff in which a prescription only medicine has been incorporated in accordance with regulation 3(1)(b)(i) is sold or supplied to a person–

(a) whose name is entered in Part A of the Register and whom the seller or supplier knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, to be a person who does not have animals under his control for the purposes of, and in the course of carrying on a business, either as his sole business activity or as a part of his business activities unless for research or educational purposes only, or

(b) whose name is entered in the register kept by the Society or by the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under article 3(7) of the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (No. 2) Order 1989(1).

(1)

S.I. 1989/2318.