ExceptionsN.I.
5.—(1) Article 4 shall not apply to any person who is transporting a pathogen or carrier and who does not own or have any rights in that pathogen or carrier.
(2) Article 4 shall not apply in relation to any pathogen or carrier contained in a product—
(a)authorised to be placed on the market in Northern Ireland as a veterinary medicinal product, or authorised to be administered to an animal in Northern Ireland;
(b)authorised to be placed on the market under [F1the Human Medicines Regulations 2012] ;
(c)licensed in accordance with the provisions of section 7(2) of the Medicines Act 1968(1).
(3) Article 4 shall not apply to any specified animal pathogen contained in an animal where—
(a)such pathogen was not deliberately introduced into the animal; and
(b)a notification has been made to the Department or to a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland(2) under Article 10 of the 1981 Order or any order made thereunder regarding the presence of disease, or suspicion of it, in the animal, or the Department is aware of the presence of such disease, or suspicion of it, in the said animal.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 5(2)(b) substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 122 (with Sch. 32)
Commencement Information
I1Art. 5 in operation at 30.8.2008, see art. 1
By virtue of section 1 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c.32) the body of constables known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary shall be styled for operational purposes the “Police Service of Northern Ireland”