The Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

Modification of section 67(8) of the Agriculture Act 1970

9.  In Great Britain, section 67(8) of the Act shall (as specified in regulation 7) have effect as if, for the provisions of that subsection, there were substituted the following provisions:

“(8) If the Minister is of opinion or, in the case of any area in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers are of opinion, that in any area covered by an enforcement authority, the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 or section 73 or 73A of the Act have been—

(a) insufficiently enforced or administered by the authority concerned, or

(b) enforced or administered by it without sufficient regard to the requirements of Council Directive 95/53/EC fixing the principles governing the organisation of official inspections in the field of animal nutrition;

he or, as the case may be, they may appoint one or more inspectors to exercise the powers exercisable by inspectors appointed by the authority in question, and any expenses certified by him or, as the case may be, them, as having been incurred by him or, as the case may be, them under this subsection shall be repaid to him or, as the case may be, them on demand by that authority.

(8A) In subsection (8) of this section “the Scottish Ministers” has the meaning given in section 44(2) of the Scotland Act 1998..”