Amendment of section 7 of the Act
2.—(1) Section 7(1) of the Act (general provisions as to dealing with medicinal products) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (5)(b) (under which a person responsible for the placing of certain kinds of medicinal product on the market in the United Kingdom is required to have a product licence) for “or ready-made veterinary drug” there shall be substituted “, a ready-made veterinary drug or an industrially produced medicinal product other than a veterinary drug”.
(3) After subsection (6) there shall be inserted—
“(6A) Where the product which a person is responsible for placing on the market in the United Kingdom is not a veterinary drug, subsection (5)(b) of this section shall not apply if the product is—
(a)whole human blood, human blood plasma or blood cells of human origin,
(b)a radiopharmaceutical in which the radionuclide is in the form of a sealed source, or
(c)a homoeopathic medicinal product.
(6B) Where the product which a person is responsible for placing on the market in the United Kingdom is a veterinary drug, subsection (5)(b) of this section shall not apply if the product is—
(a)a vaccine, toxin or serum,
(b)a product based on radioactive isotopes,
(c)a product specially prepared for administration by a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner to a particular animal or herd which is under his care,
(d)a homoeopathic medicinal product, or
(e)an additive for animal feeding stuffs to which the provisions of Council Directive 70/524/EEC(2) apply.”.
(4) In subsection (7) (definitions) for the words from the beginning to “(b)” there shall be substituted—
“In this section—
“proprietary medicinal product” means a ready-prepared medicinal product placed on the market in the United Kingdom under a special name and in a special pack;
“radiopharmaceutical” means a medicinal product which, when ready for use, contains one or more radionuclides included for a medicinal purpose; and”.
(5) In that subsection, in the definition of “ready-made veterinary drug”, the words from “and for the purposes of this definition” to the end are hereby repealed.