The Supply of Relevant Veterinary Medicinal Products Order 2005

The Secretary of State, being the appropriate Minister under section 56 of the Fair Trading Act1 (“the Act”), makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 56(2) and 90(2), (4) and (7) of, and paragraphs 1, 6, 9, 10 and 12A of Schedule 8 to, the Act2;

The Order is to remedy or prevent the adverse effects which were specified in the report made by the Competition Commission entitled “Veterinary Medicines: A report on the supply within the United Kingdom of prescription-only veterinary medicines”3 (“the Competition Commission Report”) which was made following a monopoly reference by the Director General of Fair Trading4, on 9th October in accordance with sections 10(3), 10(4), 47(1), 49(1) and 50(1) of the Act;

The then Secretary of State, in accordance with section 91(2) of the Act5, published a notice on 18th February 2005 stating her intention to make this Order, indicating the nature of the provisions to be embodied in it and stating that any person whose interests were likely to be affected by it and who wished to make representations in respect of it should do so in writing before 13th May 2005;