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The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019

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Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1252

Environmental Protection, England

The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019

Made

9th September 2019

Laid before Parliament

10th September 2019

Coming into force

29th September 2019

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by—

(a)

section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) being a minister designated(2) in relation to measures relating to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms for the purposes of that section, and

(b)

section 111(4) and (11) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(3), having consulted the Food Standards Agency in accordance with section 126(5) of that Act.

(1)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).

(2)

S.I. 1991/755. Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by virtue of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

(3)

1990 c. 43. Subsection (11) defines “prescribed”. Section 126 was substituted by paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28).

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