The Food Safety (Ships and Aircraft) (Wales) Order 2003

Title, commencement and application E+W

1.  This Order which may be cited as the Food Safety (Ships and Aircraft) (Wales) Order 2003; shall come into force on 31st July 2003 and applies to Wales only.

Interpretation E+W

2.—(1) In this Order —

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“exempt ship or aircraft” (“llong neu awyren esempt”) means any sovereign immune ship or aircraft or any ship of a State other than the United Kingdom which is exercising the right of innocent passage through that part of the territorial sea within to Wales;

“home-going ship” (“llong sy'n mynd tuag adref”) means a ship which is engaged exclusively in —

(a)

plying in internal waters, or

(b)

excursions which last not more than one day, start and end in Great Britain and do not involve calling at any place outside Great Britain;

“innocent passage” (“tramwyo'n ddiniwed”) has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Part II Section 3A of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

“internal waters” (“dyfroedd mewnol”) has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Article 8(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

“the principal Hygiene and Temperature Control provisions” (“y prif ddarpariaeth Rheoli Hylendid a Thymheredd”) means —

(a)

F1 ...

(b)

the Food Safety (Temperature Control) Regulations 1995 M1 except regulations 4 — 9 and 12 and Part III of those Regulations.

“sovereign immune ship or aircraft” (“llong neu awyren freintrydd sofran”) means a ship or aircraft belonging to a State other than the United Kingdom and which is not in use for commercial purposes;

“territorial sea” (“môr tiriogaethol”) has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 M2 ;

“Wales” (“Cymru”) has the same meaning as provided by section 155 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 M3 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 2(1) revoked (1.1.2006) by The Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3292), reg. 1, Sch. 7

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1995/2200 as amended by S.I. 1995/3205, 1996/1499, 1998/994, 1998/1398 and 2000/656.

M2 1987 c. 49.

M3 1998 c. 38.

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3.  “Premises” shall include any ship or aircraft of a description specified in the Schedule to this Order for any purpose specified in relation to that ship or aircraft in that Schedule.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998.

D.Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly