The Medicines (Exemptions from Licences and Animal Test Certificates) (Amendment) Order 1991

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Exemptions from Licences and Animal Test Certificates) (Amendment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 3rd April 1991.

Amendments

2.  The Medicines (Exemptions from Licences and Animal Test Certificates) Order 1986(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.

3.  In article 2 (Interpretation) at the end of paragraph (1)(a) there shall be added the following definition—

• “‘withdrawal period’ means the period from cessation of medication of an animal with a veterinary drug or immunological veterinary drug to slaughter of that animal for human consumption or to the taking of products derived from such an animal for human consumption.”.

4.  In article 4(1) (conditions) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) the licensing authority have issued to the supplier, before the end of the specified period, an animal test (confirmation of exemption) certificate; and”.

5.  For article 5 (application of exemption) there shall be substituted the following article—

“5.   The exemption conferred by article 3(a) shall not apply to the sale,supply or importation, or to the procuring of the sale, supply, manufacture or assembly of—

(a) a live immunological veterinary drug, in respect of which a product licence has not been granted; or

(b) a verterinary drug containing an active ingredient being a substance which is not contained in any veterinary drug in respect of which a product licence has been granted (not being a product licence of right) unless the supplier has given to the licensing authority—

(i) a notice stating that the drug is not for use by being administered to animals intended for human consumption or to animals whose produce is intended for human consumption; or

(ii) sufficient toxicological information for the licensing authority to determine whether or not the withdrawal period notified pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 is adequate.”.

6.  For Schedules 1 and 2 to the Order there shall be substituted the two Schedules set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Stephen Dorrell

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health

6th March 1991

Strathclyde

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

5th March 1991

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

5th March 1991

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

7th March 1991.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

7th day of March 1991.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this

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W. J. Hodges

Permanent Secretary

8th day of March 1991.