The Medicines (Vaccination Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Order 2004
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The Secretary of State, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57(1) and (2) and 58(4) and (5) of the Medicines Act 1968[1], and now vested in them, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by this Order, and after consulting and taking into account the advice of the Veterinary Products Committee, make the following Order: Title and commencement 1. This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Vaccination against Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Order 2004, and shall come into force on 1st December 2004. Interpretation 2. In this Order -
and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Council
Directive on FMD.
(ii) lay vaccinators; (iii) other persons engaged by the appropriate authority; or (b) a person who acts on the instructions of his employer if by
virtue of sub-paragraph (a)(iii) the restrictions of sections 52 and
58(2)(a) of the Act do not apply to that employer when he gives
those instructions. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) an
outbreak of FMD has occurred in the United Kingdom
where -
(b) the situation described in paragraph 5 of the Schedule applies and the Chief Veterinary Officer's satisfaction described in that paragraph is communicated by her or on her behalf in such manner and to such persons as she regards appropriate in the situation.
1. FMD virus has been isolated from an animal, any product derived from that animal, or its environment. 2. Clinical signs consistent with FMD are observed in an animal of a susceptible species, and the viral antigen or viral RNA specific to any serotype of FMD virus has been detected and identified in samples collected from the animal or animals of the same epidemiological group. 3. Clinical signs consistent with FMD are observed in an animal of a susceptible species and the animal or its cohorts are positive for antibody to FMD virus structural or non-structural proteins, in circumstances where previous vaccination, residual maternal antibodies or non-specific reactions can be excluded as possible causes of seropositivity. 4. Viral antigen or viral RNA specific to any serotype of FMD virus has been detected and identified in samples collected from animals of susceptible species, and the animals are positive for antibody to FMD virus structural or non-structural proteins, in circumstances where, in the case of antibodies to structural proteins, previous vaccination, residual maternal antibodies or non-specific reactions can be excluded as possible causes of seropositivity. 5. The Chief Veterinary Officer is satisfied that an epidemiological link has been established between a place in the United Kingdom where animals susceptible to FMD may be held or found and an outbreak of FMD outside of the United Kingdom which has been confirmed by the competent authority in the country concerned, and that any of the following sub-paragraphs applies in respect of any place where that outbreak is identified outside of the United Kingdom:
(b) viral antigen or viral RNA specific to any serotype of FMD virus has been detected and identified in samples collected from any animal of a susceptible species; (c) serological evidence of active infection with FMD by detection of seroconversion from negative to positive for antibody to FMD virus structural or non-structural proteins has -
(ii) where a previously seronegative status cannot be reasonably be expected, been established in any animal of a susceptible species following detection of seroconversion carried out in paired samples collected from the same animals on two or more occasions at least 5 days apart, in the case of structural proteins, and at least 21 days apart, in the case of non-structural proteins, and previous vaccination, residual maternal antibodies or
non-specific reactions can be excluded as possible causes of
seropositivity; or
(This note is not part of the Order) This Order is made under the Medicines Act 1968 and applies to all of the United Kingdom. It exempts specified government officers and other persons (such as contractors and volunteers and their employees) from the general restrictions of the Medicines Act 1968 as to the supply of pharmacy only and prescription only medicines. The exemption applies only when they supply foot-and-mouth vaccine as part of the government's response to an outbreak in the United Kingdom of foot-and-mouth disease (defined, as specified in Annex I to Council Directive 2003/85/EC on Community measures for control of foot-and-mouth disease, to include an established epidemiological link between a place in the United Kingdom and an outbreak elsewhere), or to the risk of an outbreak occurring in the United Kingdom in the circumstances envisaged by Article 50.1(b) of Council Directive 2003/85/EC, which covers risk of the disease spreading to the United Kingdom from another Member State owing to its geographical situation or the prevailing meteorological conditions. The exemption also applies in the same limited circumstances to lay vaccinators, that is, persons covered by the Veterinary Surgery (Vaccination against Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Order 2004. A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Animal Welfare Division, Branch D), 6th Floor, 1A Page Street, London SW1P 4PQ. Notes: [1] 1968 c. 67; and see paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1), which has effect during suspension pursuant to section 1(8) of that Act: this paragraph provides that the functions of a Northern Ireland Minister who was in charge of a Northern Ireland Department immediately before the coming into force of section 1 of the Act may be discharged by that Department, subject, according to paragraph 4(1)(f) of the Schedule, to the direction and control of the Secretary of State. The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland were renamed the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by article 3(4) and (6) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/283 (N.I.1)).back [2] OJ No. L306, 22.11.2003, p. 1.back
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