The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 638

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made

5th March 1997

Laid before Parliament

6th March 1997

Coming into force

1st April 1997

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, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

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

25th February 1997

Lindsay

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

25th February 1997

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jonathan Evans

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

26th February 1997

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

L.S.

P J Small

Permanent Secretary

28th February 1997.

We consent,

Roger Knapman

Gyles Brandreth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

5th March 1997

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	375	389
2. For retention of name in the Register	234	342
3. For restoration of name to the Register	329	342
Part B of the Register
1. For entry of name in the Register	105	109
2. For retention o name in the Register	65	68
3. For restoration of name to the Register	102	106”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 1997, further 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 Medicated Animal Feeding Stuffs (regulation 2 and the Schedule).

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, 1996/769.