Regulation 29 Modification of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

in regulation 7(2) and (4), the references to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995”, shall have effect as if they read “the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000”;

in regulation 8, the reference to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 shall have effect as if it were a reference to those Regulations as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and as modified by these Regulations;

section 67 shall have effect for the purpose specified in regulation 7(2) of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 as if for subsection (8) there were substituted the following subsection (instead of the subsection substituted by regulation 9 of those Regulations):–

“(8)

If the Scottish Ministers are of the opinion that, in the area of an enforcement authority, the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000 or section 73 or 73A of this Act have been–

(a)

insufficiently enforced or administered by the authority, or

(b)

enforced or administered by it without sufficient regard to the requirements of Council Directive 95/53/EC^f1 fixing the principles governing the organisation of official inspections in the field of animal nutrition, as amended by Council Directive 1999/20/EC^f2,

they may appoint one or more inspectors to exercise the powers exercisable by inspectors appointed by the authority, and any expenses certified by an inspector appointed by the Scottish Ministers as having been reasonably incurred by that inspector under this subsection shall be repaid on demand by that authority.”; and

regulation 10 shall, in so far as it modifies section 76, be read as if, in that section as so modified–