The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 976

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1988

Made

26th May 1988

Laid before Parliament

10th June 1988

Coming into force

Regulations 3(1)(a)(ii) and (2)(c)(ii) and 6(1)(b), (6)(a)(ii), (b)(ii) and (c)(ii) and (7)(b)

1st July 1989

Remainder

1st July 1988

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40 and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) and now vested in them(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Regulations in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act and with the consent of the Treasury in accordance with section 40(7) of that Act, and the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, being Ministers designated(3) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(4) in relation to medicinal products and the common agricultural policy of the Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1968 c. 67; section 40 was substituted by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40), section 13(1); “the Agriculture Ministers” referred to in section 40 is defined in section 1(1)(b) of 1968 c. 67 (see also the following footnote).

(2)

In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272 and in the case of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b).

(3)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(4)

1972 c. 68.