Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 1984
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1984/768 |
| Year | 1984 |
1984 No. 768
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 19844thJune 1984
30thJune 1984
The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Wales and in Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of powers conferred by section 51 of the Medicines Act 1968(a) and now vested in them(b) 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 order in accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Medicines Commission in accordance with sections 129(7) of that Act, hereby make the following order:—
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.— (1) This order may be cited as the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List) Order 1984 and shall come into operation on 30th June 1984.
(2) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "the Act" means the Medicines Act 1968;
"dosage unit" means:
(i) where a veterinary drug is in the form of a tablet or capsule or is an article in some other similar pharmaceutical form, that tablet, capsule or other article, and
(ii) where a veterinary drug is not in any such form, that quantity of the drug which is used as the unit by reference to which the dose is measured;
"excipient" means a substance which does not contribute to the
(a) 1968 c. 67.
(b) In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388, 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 Northern Ireland Departments by virtue of section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).
pharmacological action of the veterinary drug, or which so contributes only by regulating the release of the active ingredients;
"external use" means application to the skin, hair, fur, feathers, scales, hoof, horn, ear, eye, mouth or mucosa of the throat or prepuce, when a local action only is intended and extensive systemic absorption is unlikely to occur;
"food" includes articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food and includes any manufactured substance to which there has been added any vitamin and which is advertised (within the meaning of section 92 of the Act) as available and for sale to the general public for consumption by animals;
"maximum daily dose" means the maximum quantity of the substance contained in the amount of a veterinary drug for internal use which it is recommended should be administered in any period of twenty-four hours;
"maximum strength" means either the maximum quantity of the substance by weight or volume contained in a dosage unit of a veterinary drug or the maximum percentage of the substance contained in a veterinary drug calculated in terms of weight in weight, weight in volume, volume in weight or volume in volume, as appropriate;
"parenteral administration" means administration by breach of the skin or mucous membrane; and
(b) a reference to a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to this order which bears that number and a reference in a Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that Schedule which bears that number.
(3) In Schedule 1—
(a) the following abbreviations are used:
"iu" for international unit of activity,
"mcg" for microgram, and
"mg" for milligram.
(b) a reference to a Table is to the appropriate Table in that Schedule; and
(c) entries in columns 2, 3 and 4 in the Tables relate to the substances listed in column 1 against which they appear and where, in relation to a particular substance listed in column 1, an entry in column 2, 3 or 4 bears a number or letter it relates only to such entries in the other of those columns as bear the same number.
General sale list
2. There are hereby specified classes of medicinal products which in the opinion of the Ministers can with reasonable safety be sold or supplied otherwise than by or under the supervision of a pharmacist, namely, veterinary drugs which fall within a class specified in Schedule 1 but which do not fall within a class specified in Schedule 2.
Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services.
21st May 1984.
George Younger, Secretary of State for Scotland.
8th May 1984.
Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales.
14th May 1984.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 11th May 1984.
Michael Jopling, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
(L.S.)
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 25th day of May 1984.
Maurice N. Hayes, Permanent Secretary.
(L.S.)
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture...
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