Animal Remedies Act, 1956
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Disclosure of composition of animal remedies. |
5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall sell or import an animal remedy unless the container in which it is sold or imported and any outer wrapper bear a notice clearly indicating— | |
(a) (i) the appropriate commercial common name of the remedy or, if it contains more than one ingredient, of each ingredient and the proportion thereof in the remedy, or | ||
(ii) if the remedy or any ingredient has not an appropriate commercial common name, the appropriate scientific name of such remedy or ingredient, or | ||
(iii) if the remedy consists solely of a therapeutic substance in respect of which a licence or permit granted under the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932 (No. 25 of 1932), is in force, the name of the substance as stated in the licence or permit and the number of the licence or permit, and | ||
(b) the specific remedial property or properties claimed for the remedy, and | ||
(c) (i) in a case where the remedy is imported in bulk and packed in the State, the name and address of the importer and packer of the remedy, | ||
(ii) in a case where the remedy is manufactured in the State for and under the control of a person who manufactures the same remedy or causes it to be manufactured outside the State, the name and address of that person and that the remedy is manufactured in the State for and under the control of that person and the name and address of the packer or, where the remedy is not distributed by the manufacturer or packer, of the distributor of the remedy, or | ||
(iii) in any other case, the name and address of the manufacturer and packer of the remedy, and | ||
(d) such other particulars as may be prescribed from time to time by regulations made by the Minister after consultation with the Consultative Committee. | ||
(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall publish or cause to be published an advertisement for an animal remedy unless such advertisement contains the particulars specified in subsection (1). | ||
(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the importation in bulk of an animal remedy otherwise than in the container or outer wrapper in which it is intended to be put on sale. | ||
(4) Subsection (2) shall not apply to an advertisement published or caused to be published by the Minister or to scientific information published or caused to be published by a university or professional or scientific institution or association. | ||
(5) This section shall not apply to an animal remedy which— | ||
(a) is supplied to a registered veterinary surgeon or by a registered veterinary surgeon to a person for the treatment of an animal which is owned by or ordinarily in the custody of that person and concerning which that person has consulted him in the course of his private professional practice, | ||
(b) is sold by or imported from an official veterinary research laboratory recognised by the Minister, | ||
(c) is supplied, in accordance with an individual prescription of a registered veterinary surgeon, and is sold by a registered pharmaceutical chemist, a registered druggist or a registered dispensing chemist and druggist to the person named in the prescription, or | ||
(d) is exported from the State. | ||
(6) The Minister may require— | ||
(a) any person who sells an animal remedy to satisfy him of the accuracy of any statement on the container or outer wrapper of such remedy, | ||
(b) any person who causes to be published an advertisement for an animal remedy to satisfy him of the accuracy of any statement contained in the advertisement, | ||
and any such requirement shall be complied with. | ||
(7) In this section “appropriate scientific name” means— | ||
(a) in a case where the remedy or ingredient is a poison included in Schedule A to the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870, the name with which the container of such poison is required to be labelled pursuant to section 2 of that Act, | ||
(b) in a case where the remedy or ingredient is not such a poison and is described in any of the monographs contained in the edition of the Irish Pharmacopoeia which was last published before the date on which such remedy or the remedy containing such ingredient was manufactured or imported, the description set out at the head of that monograph, or | ||
(c) in any other case, the accepted scientific name or other name descriptive of the true nature of the remedy or ingredient. |