HC Deb 18 October 1968 vol 770 cc782-3

Lords Amendment No. 21: In page 27, line 1, after the Amendment last inserted, insert new Clause "B":

and that certificate is for the time being in force and the substance or article is administered in accordance with that certificate.
55 (5) For the purposes of this section a product licence shall be taken to be a licence which authorises a particular medicinal test on animals if—
(a) the substance or article to be administered in the test is a medicinal product of a description to which the licence relates, and
60 (b) the uses of medicinal products of that description which are referred to in the licence are such as to include their use for the purposes of that test.
(6) In this Act 'medicinal test on animals' means any of the following, that is to say—
65 (a) the administration of a medicinal product of a particular description to one or more animals, where there is evidence that medicinal products of that description have effects which may be beneficial to, or otherwise advantageous in relation to, that animal or those animals, and the product is administered for the purpose of ascertaining whether, or to what extent, it has those or any other effects, whether advantageous or otherwise;
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75 (b) the administration of a medicinal product to one or more animals in circumstances where there is no such evidence as is mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and the product is administered for the purpose of ascertaining whether, or to what extent, it has any effects relevant to a medicinal purpose;
80 (c) the administration of any substance or article, other than a medicinal product, to one or more animals for the purpose of ascertaining whether it has any effects relevant to a medicinal purpose, whether there is evidence that it has effects which may be beneficial to, or otherwise advantageous in relation to, that animal or those animals or not."
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Read a Second time.

Amendment to the proposed Amendment agreed to: In line 63, after 'means' insert: an investigation or series of investigations consisting of'.—[Mr. K. Robinson.]

Lords Amendment, as amended, agreed to.

"C.—(1) The restrictions imposed by subsections (1) and (4) of section (Medicinal tests on animals) of this Act do not apply to anything done in relation to a substance or article for the purposes or by way of a medicinal test on animals if—
5 (a) the test is, or is to be, carried out in circumstances where there is no evidence that the substance or article has effects which may be beneficial to, or otherwise advantageous in relation to. the animal or animals to which it is, or is to be, administered, and
10 (b) the arrangements for the test are such as to secure that no animal to which the substance or article is administered in the course of the test, and no carcase or part of the carcase or produce of any such animal, will be sold or supplied for human consumption.
15 (2) Subject to the next following subsection, the restrictions imposed by subsections (1) and (4) of that section do not apply to a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner in respect of his—
20 (a) selling or supplying, or procuring the sale or supply of, a medicinal product for the purpose of its being administered to one or more animals which are under his care, or