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The Contaminants in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

S.R. 2013/296 · Made 12 December 2013

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This Statutory Rule has been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2013 No. 229 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Rule

Food

Made 12th December 2013

Coming into operation 17th January 2014

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safetyf1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 15(1), 16(1) and (2), 25(1)(a) and 3 and 47(2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991f2.

In accordance with Article 47(3A) of that Order, it has had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(6)

f2

S.I. 1991/762 (N.I.7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1663 (N.I.12), paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c.28 and S.R. 2004 Nos. 482 and 505

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Contaminants in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and come into operation on 17th January 2014.

2Amendment of the Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

(1)

The Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013f1 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

For regulation 2(3) substitute—

“(3)

Subject to regulation 2(4), any reference to an EU instrument is a reference to it as amended at the date of making these Regulations.”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 12th December 2013.

L.S.

Linda Devlin

A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make a minor amendment to regulation 2(3) of the Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013 No. 229) in order to correct an error therein.