The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006

Supply by a suitably qualified person

13.—(1) The Secretary of State shall recognise bodies that are suitable to maintain a register for suitably qualified persons to prescribe and supply veterinary medicinal products classified as POM-VPS and NFA-VPS.

(2) In order to recognise such a body, the Secretary of State must be satisfied that the body—

(a) has in place a system for ensuring that persons applying for registration have adequate training to act as a suitably qualified person under these Regulations;

(b) has adequate standards in deciding whether or not to register someone as a suitably qualified person;

(c) maintains a programme of continuing development for persons registered with it;

(d) operates an adequate appeal system if it intends to refuse to register anyone with appropriate qualifications or to remove anyone from the register.

(3) To become a suitably qualified person it is necessary to pass examinations specified by such a body, and to be registered with such a body.

(4) The supply of products permitted to be supplied by a suitably qualified person must take place from premises approved by the Secretary of State as being suitable for the storage and supply of veterinary medicinal products.

(5) A suitably qualified person must either—

(a) hand over or despatch the product himself;

(b) ensure that, when the product is handed over or despatched, he is in a position so that he can intervene if necessary; or

(c) check the product after it has been allocated for supply to a customer, and satisfy himself that the person handing over or dispatching it is competent to do so.

(6) If a suitably qualified person considers that the premises in which he is operating no longer comply with the approval granted by the Secretary of State, he must notify the Secretary of State without unreasonable delay, and failure to do so is an offence.

(7) The Secretary of State may issue a Code of Practice for suitably qualified persons, and a body recognised under this paragraph shall ensure that a suitably qualified person registered with it complies with the Code of Practice.

(8) The Secretary of State shall publish a list of—

(a) suitably qualified persons; and

(b) the trading names and the addresses of premises approved under this paragraph.

(9) The procedure for the suspension or revocation of the authorisation of the premises is the same as for the holder of a manufacturing authorisation.