S.L. 437.47 Art. 3Applicability.

(1) These regulations shall not apply to:

(a) medicated feedingstuffs as defined in European Union

Council Directive 90/167/EEC laying down the conditions governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs in the European Union;

(b) inactivated immunological veterinary medicinal products which are manufactured from pathogens and antigens obtained from an animal or animals from a holding and used for the treatment of that animal or the animals of that holding in the same locality;

(c) veterinary medicinal products based on radio-active isotopes;

(d) any additives covered by European Union Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs where they are incorporated in animal feedingstuffs and supplementary animal feedingstuffs in accordance with that Directive; and

However, medicated feedingstuffs referred to in paragraph

(a) may be prepared only from pre-mixes that have been authorised under these regulations.

(2) Except for the provisions on the possession, prescription, dispensing and administration of veterinary medicinal products, these regulations shall not apply to:

(a) any medicinal product prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with a veterinary prescription for an individual animal or a small group of animals, commonly known as the magistral formula; and

(b) any medicinal product prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with the prescriptions of a Pharmacopoeia and intended to be supplied directly to the end-user, commonly known as the officinal formula.