Version Superseded: 01/10/2006
Point in time view as at 19/07/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Medicines Act 1968, Section 34 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)Subject to the following provisions of this Act, no person shall in the course of a business carried on by him sell or supply for human consumption an animal to which in the course of that business a substance or article has been administered by way of a test to which this section applies, or the carcase or any part of the carcase or any produce of such an animal, unless—
(a)at the time when the substance or article was so administered there was in force an animal test certificate issued in respect of that test, and
(b)all the provisions of that certificate relating to the carrying out of the test and the disposal of the animal or its carcase or produce are, and have at all material times been, complied with.
(2)This section applies to any medicinal test on animals which is carried out in the course of the business of the person who has manufactured the substance or article administered in the test, or is carried out on his behalf in the course of the business of a laboratory or research establishment carried on by another person, and (in either case) is so carried out on one or more animals kept in the course of the business of the person carrying out the test.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. II(ss. 6–50) extended with modifications by S.I. 1985/1403, art. 3(1)
C2Ss. 32-39 modified (1.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3142, reg. 18(4)
C3S. 34 applied (with modifications) (2.8.1999) by S.I. 1999/1871, reg. 92(3)
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