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 3FEES

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.