1990 No. 567
MEDICINES

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

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 Clarke
Secretary of State for Health
Sanderson of Bowden
Minister of State, Scottish Office
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales

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

John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

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

F. A. Elliott
Permanent Secretary

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

W. J. Hodges
Permanent Secretary
(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.