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The Official Feed and Food Controls (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

S.R. 2011/48 · Made 23 February 2011

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Agriculture

Food

Made 23rd February 2011

Coming into operation 1st April 2011

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safetyf1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2.

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food–producing animalsf3, the common agricultural policy of the European Unionf4 and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public healthf5.

As required 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 safetyf6 there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of the following Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(6)

f2

1972 c.68

f3

S.I. 2003/2901

f4

S.I. 2000/2812

f5

S.I. 1999/2027

f6

OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Official Feed and Food Controls (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and come into operation on 1st April 2011.

(2)

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954f1 applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

2Amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

(1)

The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009f1 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

In regulation 12 (right of appeal), omit paragraphs (5) to (7).

Signature

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 23rd February 2011.

L.S.

Catherine Daly

A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

1

These Regulations (at regulation 2) amend The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009 No. 427) by omitting paragraphs (5) to (7) of regulation 12 of those Regulations.

2

Those paragraphs made provision for a food business operator who has appealed against the refusal or withdrawal of an authorisation of a food business establishment to continue to operate the establishment pending the outcome of that appeal.