Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 Regulations relating to feedingstuffs: consequential provisions

Part I Consequential modifications to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) after the definition of “additive” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”; and

(b) in the definition of “national list” for “the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

2.  In regulation 15(9), for “the Department of Agriculture” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

Part II Consequential modifications to the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999

1.  In regulation 2(2)—

(a) after the definition of “additive” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”; and

(b) the definition of “the Minister” shall be omitted.

2.—(1) In the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), for the words “the Minister”, “him” and “it”, wherever they occur in each of those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”, “it” and “the competent body” respectively.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are regulations 10, 17, 24 and 31.

3.—(1) In the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), for “the Minister”, wherever it occurs in each of those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are regulations 33(1), 34(1), 34(2) and 35(1), (3) and (5).

4.  In regulations 35(4) and 36(2), for the words “the Minister”, “he” and “him”, wherever they occur in each of those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

5.  In regulations 36(1) and 37(1) and (2), for the words “the Minister” and “he”, wherever they occur in each of those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

6.  For regulation 38 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Obligation of competent bodies to supply certain information to the Food Standards Agency

38.   Where any competent body comes into possession of information which it considers will assist the Agency to exercise its functions under regulations 36 and 37, the competent body shall as soon as possible provide that information to the Agency in writing.”.

7.  In regulation 39, in the definitions of “approved third country establishment”, “eligible person” and “registered third country establishment”, for “the Minister”, wherever it occurs in each of those definitions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

Part III Consequential modifications to the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999, save in so far as they relate to zootechnical products (as referred to in section 29(2)(d) of the 1999 Act)

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) after the definition of “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”; and

(b) the definition of “the Minister” shall be omitted.

2.  In regulations 4(13) and 6(6), for “the Minister”, wherever it occurs in each of those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

3.  In regulation 14—

(a) for “the Minister” there shall be substituted “the Agency”; and

(b) for “him” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

Part IV Consequential modifications to the Animal Feedingstuffs from Belgium (Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) before the definition of “the Control Order” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”;

(b) the definition of “the Department” shall be omitted; and

(c) in the definition of “enforcement officer”, for “the Department” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

2.—(1) In the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), for “the Department”, wherever it occurs in each of those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are regulations 5(1) and (2) and 6(2)(d)(i).