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AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND

Made 6th May 2004

Laid before Parliament 11th May 2004

Coming into force 1st June 2004

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 66(1), 74A and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970^f1 (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000^f2 and articles 2 and 6 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002^f3), and being a Minister designated^f4 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f5 in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that last mentioned section (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers of the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), after consultation as required by section 84(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 and by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety^f6, makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1: 1970 c. 40. Section 66(1) contains definitions of the expressions “the Ministers”, “prescribed” and “regulations”; the definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), Schedule 5, paragraph 1. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672. Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46). By virtue of S.I. 1999/3141, functions of the Secretaries of State for Wales and Scotland previously exercisable in relation to England ceased to be so exercisable and were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6.
f2: S.I. 2000/656.
f3: S.I. 2002/794.
f4: S.I. 1972/1811, amended by S.I. 2002/794.
f5: 1972 c. 68.
f6: OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. Under Article 3 of the EC Regulation “food law” extends to feed produced for, or fed to, food producing animals.