The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 769

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Made

11th March 1996

Laid before Parliament

13th March 1996

Coming into force

3rd April 1996

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(1) and (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, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 3rd April 1996.

Amendment of the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (No. 2) Regulations 1992

2.  For Schedule 3 to the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (No. 2) Regulations 1992(3) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Angela Browning

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

11th March 1996

Lindsay

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

7th March 1996

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

11th March 1996

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

L.S.

J. Murray

Permanent Secretary

11th March 1996

We consent,

Simon Burns

Bowen Wells

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

11th March 1996

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Regulation 3(12)

“SCHEDULE 3 FEES

Application in respect of each premises	Previous fee £,	New fee £
Part A of the Register
1.   For entry of name in the Register	357	375
2.   For retention of name in the Register	223	234
3.   For restoration of name to the Register	313	329
Part B of the Register
1.   For entry of name in the Register	100	105
2.   For retention of name in the Register	62	65
3.   For restoration of name to the Register	97	102”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 3rd April 1996, amend the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (No. 2) Regulations 1992.

They alter the fees payable in respect of the entry or retention in, or restoration to, the Register of Manufacturers of Animal Feeding Stuffs (regulation 2 and the Schedule). The fees are increased by approximately 5%.

A Compliance Cost Assessment has been prepared and a copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament and copies can be obtained from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Woodham Lane, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 3NB.

(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 are defined in section 1(1)(b) of the Medicines Act 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. 1992/1520, amended by S.I. 1994/1531, 1995/799.