{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/427",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Competent authorities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), any body specified in Column 1 of Schedule 4 is designated as a competent authority for the purposes of the provisions of Regulation 2017/625 indicated in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that Schedule in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant feed law.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (5), any body specified in Column 1 of Schedule 5 is designated as a competent authority for the purposes of the provisions of Regulation 2017/625 indicated in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that Schedule in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant food law.\n(3) Where a district council is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (2) the designation shall extend to its district only.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Where the Agency is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (2) for the purposes of Article 148 of Regulation 2017/625, the designation extends, only to those operations in respect of which the Agency executes and enforces the Food Hygiene Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 by virtue of regulation 5(2) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(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, 10(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(5) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 10(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 25.1.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/427/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:16.841003+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}