The Marketing Authorisations for Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulations 1994

15.  The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Exemption from Licences) (Importation) Order 1986(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) there shall be inserted after article 3 the following article—

“Exemption from marketing authorisations for certain imported veterinary drugs

3A.   Subject to the conditions in article 4 below, the restriction imposed by regulation 3 of the Marketing Authorisations for Veterinary Products Regulations 1994 (which regulates the placing on the market and possession of veterinary medicinal products unless a marketing authorisation has been granted) shall not apply to the importation of a veterinary medicinal drug (not being an immunological veterinary drug) or to the sale or supply of any such imported veterinary drug.”;

(b) in article 4(1) for the words “Article 3” there shall be substituted the words “Article 3 or by Article 3A”;

(c) in article 4(1) in sub-paragraph (a) after the words “section 7(2) of the Act” there shall be inserted the words “or a marketing authorisation to which the Marketing Authorisations for Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulations 1994 apply”; and

(d) in article 4(1) in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) after the word “licence”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “or marketing authorisation”.

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S.I. 1986/228.