# The Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations revoke and replace the Meat Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004 No. 13, as amended).
Regulation 3 sets out the scope of the Regulations.
The Regulations prohibit the use of specified names in the sale and advertising of regulated products if the products do not satisfy specific compositional requirements (regulation 4 and Schedule 1).
The Regulations prohibit, subject to an exception, the sale of uncooked regulated products which include among their ingredients specified parts of the carcase of any mammalian species of animal (regulation 5).
The Regulations impose an obligation on district councils to enforce the Regulations (regulation 6).
The Regulations apply Article 9(1) and (2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/762 (N.I.7) with modifications, enabling an improvement notice to be served to require compliance with regulations 4(1), (2) or 5(1) (regulation 7). The provisions, as applied, make the failure to comply with an improvement notice an offence. In addition, the Regulations apply Article 37 and 38 of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 with modifications, enabling a decision to serve an improvement notice to be appealed (regulation 8).
The provisions, as applied, make the failure to comply with an improvement notice an offence.
The Regulations also apply certain other provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, with modifications (regulation 9 and Schedule 2).
As well as revoking the Meat Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004, the Regulations revoke the Meat Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008 No. 82) and regulation 18(4) of the Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (regulation 10).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/285/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/products-containing-meat-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/note
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