Animal Remedies Act, 1956

Regulations as to animal remedies.

7.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Minister may, after consultation with the Consultative Committee, provide by regulations—

(a) for the control (including the prohibition save under licence of the Minister) of the manufacture, preparation, packing, importation or sale of any animal remedy, and

(b) if the animal remedy is a therapeutic substance to which the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932 , applies, that that Act shall cease to apply, either wholly or to a specified extent, to the remedy.

(2) Regulations under this section shall not apply to the supply or sale of animal remedies under subsection (5) of section 5.

(3) Regulations under this section which, if made, would provide for the cesser, either wholly or to a specified extent, of the application of the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932 , to a therapeutic substance shall not be made without the consent of the Minister for Health and regulations under this section which, if made, would affect in any other manner therapeutic substances to which the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932 , applies shall not be made without prior consultation between the Minister and the Minister for Health.