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Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2684

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances) (Amendment) Order 1992

Made

29th October 1992

Laid before Parliament

10th November 1992

Coming into force

1st December 1992

The Secretary of State concerned with health in England, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health and with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales, 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 62 of the Medicines Act 1968(1) as read with the Medicines (Extension to Antimicrobial Substances) Order 1973(2) and now vested in them(3), 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 appropriate committee in accordance with section 62(3) of that Act, in this instance being the Veterinary Products Committee, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances) (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on1st December 1992.

Amendment

2.-(1) The Medicines (Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances) Order 1977(4) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(2) In Schedule 2-

(a)in column 2 (purpose) in relation to the entry "3. Streptomycins" there shall be added, at the end, the following subparagraph-

"(3) When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.";

(b)at the end there shall be added the following paragraphs-

"Column 1Column 2Column 3
SubstancePurposeCircumstances

4. Amphotericins

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

5. Gentamicins

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

6. Kanamycins

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

7. Lincomycins

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

8. Nystatin

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

9. Penicillins

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

10. Spectinomycin

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.

11. Tylosin

When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Brian Mawhinney

Minister,

Department of Health

27th October 1992

Hector Monro

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

22nd October 1992

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

21st October 1992

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

23rd October 1992

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this

L.S.

F. E. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

26th day of October 1992.

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

L.S.

W. J. Hodges

Permanent Secretary

29th day of October 1992.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Medicines (Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances) Order 1977. That Order permits the sale or supply of specified antimicrobial substances contained in medicinal products or animal feedingstuffs for specified purposes and in specified circumstances. The Order gives effect to Annex C paragraph 2 in both Council Directive 88/407 (OJ No. L194, 22.7.88, p. 10) and 90/429 (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 62) laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of, respectively, the bovine and porcine species. The Order adds another purpose for the permitted use of the substance streptomycin, namely when that substance is used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals. Eight more substances are added to Schedule 2 to the 1977 Order with a permitted use for that same purpose.

(1)

1968 c. 67; "the appropriate Ministers" referred to in section 62 is defined in section 1(2) (see also footnote (c) below).

(2)

S.I. 1973/367.

(3)

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in 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 the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 andSchedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b).

(4)

S.I. 1977/2131.


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