Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 29th January 1997.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(1).

(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (9).

(2) In regulation 1(2), in the definition of “the Directive”, for “as amended” there shall be substituted “, (as corrected) and as amended by Commission Directives 92/39/EEC, 93/9/EEC, 95/3/EC and 96/11/EC”(3).

(3) In regulations 4 (monomers)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) after “the following paragraphs” there shall be inserted “and regulation 13A”,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for “1st January 1997” there shall be substituted “1st January 2002”, and

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “31st December 1996” there shall be substituted “31st December 2001”;

(b) in paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6), after “the relevant fraction of” (wherever it occurs) there shall be added “, or section F of,”.

(4) After regulation 13 there shall be inserted—

“Manufacture until 1st January 1999

13A.   Notwithstanding regulation 4(1), until 1st January 1999 a plastic material or article may be manufactured using one or more of the monomers identified by PM/REF No., CAS No. (if any) and name respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Section F of Part I of Schedule 1, if any such monomer is of good technical quality and is used in accordance with the restrictions (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in column 4 thereof”.

(5) The Item number and letter, PM/REF No., CAS No. and name for each monomer identified in Schedule 1 shall be inserted in Section A of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (monomers authorised without time limit) at the place corresponding to the number and letter specified for that monomer in the column headed “Item” in Schedule 1.

(6) The contents of Schedule 2 shall be substituted for Section B of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

(7) In Section D of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (monomers authorised until 1st April 1996), in Item 16, for “51” and “115” in column 4 (restrictions) there shall be substituted “17” and “58” respectively.

(8) The contents of Schedule 3 shall be inserted after Section E of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

(9) The Item number and letter, PM/REF No., CAS No. (if any) and name for each additive identified in Schedule 4 shall be inserted in Part I of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (additives) at the place corresponding to the number and letter specified for that additive in the column headed “Item” in Schedule 4.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on 29th January 1996.

L.S.

W. B. Smith

Assistant Secretary