# The Food Hygiene (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1 These Regulations amend the Food Hygiene Regulations (Northern Ireland) (“the 2006 Regulations”) by updating the definitions of certain EU instruments that are referred to in those Regulations and providing that reference to those EU instruments shall be references to them as any annex to them as amended from time to time.
2 These Regulations amend the 2006 Regulations to update the definitions of certain EU instruments by —
(a) substituting definitions of certain EU instruments for the definitions of the EU instruments that currently appear after the definition of “the Community Regulations” in regulation 2(1)(Interpretation) (regulation2(2));
(b) adding a provision that any reference to an EU instrument defined in Schedule 1 is a reference to that instrument as any annex to it may be amended from time to time (regulation 2(3)); and
(c) substituting a revised Schedule 1 (definitions of EU legislation) for the existing Schedule 1 (regulation 2(5)).
3 In addition these Regulations specify the form and size of the special health mark to be applied to meat derived from animals that have undergone emergency slaughter outside the slaughterhouse (regulation 2(4) and (6) and Schedule 2).
4 A full impact assessment of the effect that this Statutory Rule will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Food Safety Group of the Food Standards Agency, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available at www.legislation.gov.uk.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/280/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/note
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