PART IXMISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
Meat products and other products of animal origin from Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
23.—(1) The places to which this regulation applies are Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
(2) No person—
(a)shall sell for human consumption from approved meat products premises—
(i)any meat product; or
(ii)any other product of animal origin,
which has been handled or stored in a place to which this regulation applies and which is intended for consignment to a relevant EEA State; or
(b)shall sell for human consumption any meat product or other product of animal origin which has been handled or stored in a place to which this regulation applies after 31st December 1995,
unless any handling or storing of that product in that place was in accordance with legislation having effect in that place and corresponding to these Regulations.
(3) No person shall sell for human consumption in Great Britain any meat product which has been handled after 31st December 1995 in a place to which this regulation applies unless it carries the relevant EC health mark or the relevant national health mark.
(4) In this regulation “the relevant EC health mark” and “the relevant national health mark”, in relation to any place to which this regulation applies, mean a mark applied in accordance with legislation having effect in that place and corresponding to the provisions of Part VI of Schedule 2 or paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 3 relating to the British EC health mark or (as the case may be) the British national health mark.
Amendments
24.—(1) After regulation 4A(b) of the Food Hygiene (Docks, Carriers, etc.) Regulations 1960(), there shall be inserted—
“(c)the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994.”.
(2) At the end of sub-paragraph (b)(iv) of the definition of “food business” in regulation 2 of the Food Hygiene (Markets, Stalls and Delivery Vehicles) Regulations 1966() there shall be added—
“or
(i)to which the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994 apply;”.
(3) At the end of regulation 3(2)(b) of the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations 1970() there shall be added—
“(iv)the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994;”.
(4) At the end of regulation 3(2)(e) of the Food Premises (Registration) Regulations 1991() there shall be added “or an approval is required under regulation 4 or 5 of the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994;”.