(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (No.2) Order 1989. In addition to some minor and drafting amendments (article 2(2) and (3) this Order prescribes the fees to be paid by a merchant for the entry, retention or restoration of his name in the Register of Merchants (article 2(4) and provides that no prescription only veterinary drug (nor intermediate feed containing such a drug) shall be sold by retail to a person on Part B of the Register of Manufacturers unless that product is intended for incorporation in animal feeding stuffs at a rate of at least 2 kilograms per tonne of the final medicated feeding stuff, on production of a veterinary written direction (article 2(5)(b).