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The Food Standards Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2000

S.I. 2000/1066 · Made 7 March 2000

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Made 7th March 2000

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 43(2) of the Food Standards Act 1999f1, hereby makes the following Order:

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f1

1999 c. 28.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Food Standards Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2000.

2

All provisions of the Food Standards Act 1999 which are not already in force, or which are in force for a particular purpose only, or in relation to Scotland and Wales only, shall come into force or, as the case may be, come into force for all other purposes, or in relation to England and Northern Ireland as well, on 1st April 2000.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Gisela Stuart

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health,

Department of Health

7th March 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings the Food Safety Act 1999 into force, in so far as it is not already in force.

Section 43 of, and paragraph 6(2) and (5) of Schedule 5 to, the Food Standards Act 1999 came into force when the Act obtained Royal Assent.

Certain other provisions of the Act were brought into force, or brought into force for particular purposes, on 11th January 2000 by the Food Standards Act 1999 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/92 (C. 2)).