The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1991

Title, commencement, interpretation and revocation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 8th July 1991.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;

“controlled drug” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(1);

“dosage unit” means—

(i)

where a veterinary drug is in the form of a tablet or capsule or is an article in some other similar pharmaceutical form, that tablet, capsule or other article, or

(ii)

where a veterinary drug is not in any such form, that quantity of the drug which is used as the unit by reference to which the dose is measured;

“external use” means application to the skin, hair, fur, feathers, scales, hoof, horn, ear, eye, mouth or mucosa of the throat or prepuce, when a local action only is intended and extensive systemic absorption is unlikely to occur;

“intermediate feed” means a medicated feeding stuff sold, supplied or imported for use wholly or mainly as an ingredient in the preparation of a substance which is to be fed to one or more animals for a medicinal purpose or for purposes that include that purpose, with or without further processing;

“The Misuse of Drugs Regulations” means, in relation to England. Wales and Scotland the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985(2) and, in relation to Northern Ireland, the Misuse of Drugs (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986(3);

“parenteral administration” means administration to an animal by breach of the skin or mucous membrane;

“perscription only medicine” means a medicinal product of a description or falling within a class specified in article 3 and, for the purposes of this Order, does not include “intermediate feed”;

“repeatable prescription” means a prescription which contains a direction that it may be dispensed more than once;

“sell” means sell by retail as defined in section 131 and “sale” has a corresponding meaning;

“soap” means any compound of a fatty acid with an alkali or amine;

“strength”, and “maximum strength” mean, in the case of a substance listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 in relation to which there is an entry in column 2, or listed or mentioned in column 1 or 3 of Schedule 2 or column 2 of Part I of Schedule 3, the strength or, as the case may be, maximum strength of the substance in a veterinary drug expressed in the terms of—

(i)

the quantity of the substance, by weight or volume, and a strength so expressed shall be taken to relate to the quantity contained in a dosage unit of the drug, or

(ii)

the quantity of the substance as a percentage of the drug calculated in terms of weight in weight (w/w), weight in volume (w/v), volume in weight (v/w), or volume in volume (v/v), or

(iii)

an equivalent strength of some other substance and, for this purpose “equivalent” means a strength corresponding to the active moiety of that other substance;

“supply” means supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale as defined in section 131;

“unit preparation” means a preparation, including a mother tincture, prepared by a process of solution, extraction or trituration with a view to being diluted tenfold or one hundredfold, either once or repeatedly, in an inert diluent, and then used either in this diluted form or, where applicable, by impregnating tablets, granules, powders or other inert substances for the purpose of being administered to animals;

“the Veterinary Drugs Exemption Order” means the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (No. 2) Order 1989(4); and

(b) a reference—

(i) to a numbered section is to the section of the Act which bears that number,

(ii) to a numbered article or Schedule is to the article of, or Schedule to, this Order which bears that number,

(iii) in an article or in a Part of a Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that article or that Part of that Schedule which bears that number, and

(iv) in a paragraph to a lettered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph of that paragraph which bears that letter.

(3) In Schedule 1—

(a) entries specified in columns 2 and 3 relate to the substances listed in column 1 against which they appear and where, in relation to a particular substance listed in column 1, an entry in column 2 or 3 bears a number or letter it relates only to such entries in the other of those columns as bear the same number or letter;

(b) the following abbreviations are used:

• “kg” for kilogram

• “mg” for milligram

• “ppm” for parts per million.

(4) The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Prescription Only) Order 1989(5) is hereby revoked.

(1)

1971 c. 38.

(2)

S.I. 1985/2066; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1986/2330.

(3)

S.R.(N.I.) 1986 No. 52; relevant amending instrument is S.R.(N.I.) 1987 No. 68.

(4)

S.I. 1989/2318, amended by S.I. 1990/568 and 1990/2496.

(5)

S.I. 1989/2319.