46Supply and use bans and recall orders

46 Supply and use bans and recall orders

46 Supply and use bans and recall orders

(1) The Secretary may make an order under this section if the Secretary believes on reasonable grounds that the administration or application of a stock medicine or a stock medicine of a particular class—

(a) is likely to endanger the health of the public, consumers of food or produce derived from stock or persons administering or applying the stock medicine, or

(b) is likely to cause undue hazard to the environment, or

(c) is likely to make stock ill, or

(d) is likely to have an adverse effect on trade, or the promotion of trade, in stock or a product derived from stock, or

(e) is likely to impede the control or eradication of diseases or pests affecting stock, or

(f) is likely to impede the control or reduction of populations of pests, including bacterial organisms, that are resistant to stock medicines, or

(g) is inappropriate in a particular area because of local climatic or soil conditions.

Editorial note.

For orders under section 46—see item (5) of the Historical notes at the end of this Act.

(2) An order under this section may—

(a) prohibit or regulate the supply of the stock medicine or stock medicines of the class, or

(b) require any person who has supplied the stock medicine or stock medicines of the class to take such reasonable steps as are specified in the order to recover any such stock medicine from other persons to whom it has been supplied by the person, or

(c) prohibit or regulate the use of the stock medicine or stock medicines of that class by any person in relation to any specified species of animal, or

(d) provide for exemptions from the operation of the order.

(2A) Without affecting the generality of subsection (2), an order under this section made in relation to a specified stock medicine or a stock medicine of a specified class may make provision for or with respect to—

(a) the identification or marking of stock to indicate whether or not stock has been treated with the stock medicine, including the use of particular colours of tags required by or under the , or