The Medicines (Exemptions from Licences) (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Order 1990

Made12th March 1990

Laid before Parliament13th March 1990

Coming into force3rd April 1990

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 15(1) and (2) and 129(4) of the Medicines Act 19681 and now vested in them2, 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:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemptions from Licences) (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 3rd April 1990.

Amendment of principal Order2

Article 2(1) of the Medicines (Exemptions from Licences) (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) Order 19893 shall be amended by omitting at the end the words “or to an intermediate medicated feeding stuff containing one or more licensed feed additives incorporated in accordance with the conditions of the product licence”.

Kenneth ClarkeSecretary of State for Health6th March 1990

Sanderson of BowdenMinister of State, Scottish Office6th March 1990

Peter WalkerSecretary of State for Wales7th March 1990

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

John Selwyn GummerMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food6th March 1990.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 9th day of

F. A. ElliottPermanent SecretaryMarch 1990.

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

W. J. HodgesPermanent Secretary12th day of March 1990.

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Medicines (Exemptions from Licences) (Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs) Order 1989 by deleting some unnecessary words from article 2(1). The effect remains that no licence under section 7 of the Medicines Act 1968 is required in relation to an intermediate medicated feeding stuff so long as any medicinal product incorporated in it was incorporated in accordance with the provisions of a product licence or an animal test certificate.