Introductory text

Northern Ireland

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 11th December 1997

Coming into operation 30th January 1998

The Department of the Environment, being a Department designated^f1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f2, in relation to measures relating to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by Articles 5(7), 8(1), (4) and (7) of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991^f3 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1991/755
f2: 1972 c. 68
f3: S.I. 1991/1714 (N.I. 19). See Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”; see Articles 5(10) and 8(11) for the definition of “prescribed” in those Articles