Regulation 17 Consequential amendment of RegulationsI1

This regulation applies to any provision of any Regulations by virtue of which immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations Article 7(2) of the Order applies where any requirements of those Regulations or any requirements referred to in those Regulations are contravened in respect of any food.

Any provision to which paragraph (1) applies shall be construed as providing that where any requirements of those Regulations or referred to in those Regulations are contravened in respect of any food and that food is part of a batch, lot or consignment of food of the same class or description, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that all of the food in that batch, lot or consignment fails to comply with those requirements.