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Regulation 23 Food enforcement responsibilities and competent authority statusI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

It shall be the responsibility of each district council to execute and enforce the Import Provisions in its district in relation to food.

(2)

District Councils are designated as the competent authorities for the purposes of the provisions of F1Regulation 2019/1793 in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant food law.

(3)

Where a district council is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (2) the designation shall extend to its district only.

F2(4)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 23(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 20(a)

F2

Reg. 23(4) omitted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 20(b)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 23 in operation at 25.1.2010, see reg. 1