Regulation 7 Amendment of the Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

In regulation 18 (offences and penalties), after paragraph (4) there shall be added the following paragraph:—

“(5)

In any proceedings for an offence against regulation 12 of these Regulations, it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that the milk in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a place outside Scotland which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that it complies with that legislation.”.